How To Properly Take Care Of Your New Contact Lenses
In order to prevent eye infections, there are some basic should be taken if you wear contact lenses. Fundamental hygiene for wearing contacts is simple to do and will assist in maintaining healthy eyes.
Prior to placing contacts in your eyes, you need to thoroughly dry and wash your hands. You must lather and scrub your hands with warm water for 30 seconds.
Do not contact a sink bathroom as well are full of bacteria and you may accidentally drop the lens in the sink. Instead work over a clean desk or table with a mirror. Open the case that holds your contacts one side at a time to ensure you do not mix up your lenses by mistake.
Repeat the process for the second one when after the first lens in place. Do not touch the tip of the bottle containing the solution of contact lens solution. This helps to keep the bottle and its contents sterile.
The tip of the contact lens solution must be touched to anything. It’s contents sterile and this will help to keep the bottle.
While you should never rub your eyes, this is especially true if your contacts are in. You could scratch the cornea of your eye and cause major damage. The contact solution never use water or saliva should only be rewetted.
Watch your eyes to the accumulation of mucus like material. This is an indication of a problem with the contacts and they should be removed and kept away until the problem is resolved. This is to give the eye time to heal and prevent contamination of the contact.
You may change contact lens cases once every 3 months. As directed by your doctor, contacts should be replaced. Do not wear your lenses longer than recommended by your doctor.
