5 Innocent Actions That Contact Lenses Users Should Avoid


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Last Updated on 2022-05-17 , 2:04 pm

People are getting comfortable with putting plastics into their eyes, and the number of young people wearing contacts is increasing.

I mean, after all, you look good, you don’t get spectacle marks on your nose after a long period of wear and it’s less troublesome, right?

But get this, with the perks come the disadvantages as well.

Wearing contact lenses might make your life better, but if you don’t exercise enough care, you might be getting yourself into really big trouble down the road.

If you wear contact lenses, these are 5 seemingly harmless actions you do to them that are actually pretty dangerous and might even make you go blind in the worst-case scenario.

Using the same pair of contact lenses after its recommended period

So maybe you’ve bought daily contact lenses, or two weeks contact lenses. At first, you’re new to this so you adhere carefully to the instructions given, but after a while, you feel like you know what you’re doing and start changing your lens every two days.

I mean, your friends are doing it as well and they seem pretty okay, right?

And it also helps you to save quite a bit.

Wrong.

Contact lenses can wear out and they absorb germs and a little bit of everything else from your eyes.

This buildup of materials farmed from your eyes might just cause you eye irritation at the least, and infection if you’re not careful.

Practising poor lens case hygiene

Did you know that the solution in your lens case must be changed daily? If you don’t have the habit, please cultivate it now.

In fact, you should change your lens case every 6 months as well. And you have to air dry your contact lens case daily.

Failure to do so will increase your chances of getting keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea which might lead to vision problems.

Here’s what you should do daily: put the contact lenses in your eye, dump the solution into the sink, wash it with a multipurpose solution and let it air dry. Wash the case with gentle soap and water once a week.


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Wearing contact lenses in the water

You might have returned home for a quick shower before going out to meet your friends, or you’re not comfortable being practically blind when you’re at the swimming pool, so you decided to wear your contacts while doing these things.

Bad idea.

There’s plenty of amoeba and bacteria in the water that could get onto your contact lenses, and if you don’t disinfect clean thoroughly and continue wearing them, you might just get something called Acanthamoeba keratitis which could lead to blindness.

Oh, when we say clean them, we mean clean them, clean them then clean them. That’s how thorough you have to be.

Leaving makeup on contact lenses

So you’re in a rush, and you’re putting on eyeliner when some of it got on your contact lens. You decide you’re in a rush and decided to leave it. After all, it’s on the outside of the lens, right?


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Please don’t.

No matter how rushed you are, take it out, clean it, and disinfect it before putting it back on. Then continue rushing out of the house.

Sleeping with contact lenses

This might just be the most dangerous thing you’ve ever done with the contact lens.

Even those that say it’s okay for extended wear.

Maybe you didn’t mean to but maybe you did, but here’s why you shouldn’t do it anyway.

When you sleep with your contact lenses, your cornea swells and opens up gaps where bacteria and amoeba can get in between the cells. So if your contact lenses have deposits of such stuff, that’s like asking for an infection.


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If you didn’t mean to, and you know the science behind why you shouldn’t sleep with contact lenses, chances are, the first thing you’re going to do is to take it out.

Don’t.

Your hands are probably filled with bacteria and germs as well, and if you touch your cornea with your fingers, you might just be introducing them into your eye instead.

Instead, use drops liberally on your eyes and wait for a few minutes before taking them out.

The oxygen introduced will cause the swelling of your cornea to go down, and then take your contacts out with clean hands.


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