Why It’s Important to Maintain Contact Lens Hygiene?
According to eye health experts at Feel Good Contacts, (UK’s leading contact lens retailer), It’s important to maintain lens hygiene to avoid serious eye infections and keep your eyes healthy.
The chances of getting an eye infection when wearing contact lenses are incredibly low if you care for them effectively. Maintaining lens hygiene is a straightforward process as long as you follow some simple steps and avoid taking risky shortcuts.
There are different types of contact lenses which require different replacement schedules as well as different care systems. Your optician will recommend a contact lens that’s best for your eyes, lifestyle and prescription. This can either be a daily replacement lens or one designed for frequent replacement such as monthly contact lenses or 2 weeklies. If you wear the latter, it is crucial to maintain them.
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How do you maintain contact lenses?
Maintaining your replacement lenses or yearly contact lenses involves cleaning them everyday and storing them in fresh solution overnight. This will ensure they are clean for greater comfort as well as minimise the risk of infection.
You should stick to the wearing schedule which will be fully stated on the packaging. For example, if you wear dailies, these need to be thrown away at the end of each day. There are some lenses which are made of silicone hydrogel and are designed for long wear times such as Dailies Total 1. However, your optician will advise you on how many hours you can wear your lenses for and you should follow the wearing schedule given to you by your optician after an aftercare.
Monthly and two weekly lenses should be worn for their respective wearing cycles and removed at the end of each day before cleaning, disinfecting and storing in contact lens solution (recommended by your optician) overnight.
Extended wear contact lenses can be slept in if approved by your optician. These lenses also need to be cleaned and your optician will advise you on how often to clean them and which solution to use.
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