Taking care of your contact lens

Contact lens (or simply contacts) is a thin, curved lens placed on the film of tears that covers the surface of your eye. The lens itself is naturally clear, but is often given the slightest tinge of colour to make them easier for wearers to handle.

Some wear contact lens for vision correction while some wear them for purely cosmetic and novelty purposes. Whatever reason you have for wearing one, they require certain prescriptions so as to keep your eyes safe.

They include:

• Always wash, rinse, and dry hands before handling contact lenses.
• Put your contact lenses on before applying makeup.
• Always use fresh, unexpired lens care solutions.
• Always remove, clean, rinse and disinfect your lenses according to the schedule prescribed by your eye care professional.
• Lenses prescribed in a frequent replacement program should be thrown away after the expiration of the wearing period prescribed by your eye care professional.
• Never rinse your lenses in water from the tap.
• To store lenses, disinfect and leave them in the closed/unopened case until ready to wear.
• Never put contacts in your mouth to wet them. Saliva (spit) is not a sterile solution.
• Use new solution each time you clean and disinfect your contact lenses. Never reuse or top off old solution.

 

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