A lot of people wear contact lenses, about 2 million in fact. After all, it is often a lot more convenient than glasses. Especially with this wintery weather. When you come from outside to a warm room, your glasses are fogged up again. And what do you think of exercising or swimming with glasses? However, it is important that you maintain your lenses properly. We give you the best tips for this.
Contact lens solution and the do's and don'ts
There are many types of contact lenses: daily lenses, monthly lenses, hard lenses, soft lenses, night lenses, bifocal lenses… But of course they all need to be properly maintained. After all, you want to keep your eyes healthy – they are extremely important. First of all, you must use the correct solution: hard contact lenses require a different solution than soft ones.
After three months you should throw away an opened bottle and close it again immediately after use. You need the liquid too do not refill, but throw it away every time and put new ones in the container. You also need the lens holder to replace when you open a new bottle and so do the liquids do not mixif you ever use a different type.
Do not use water with your contact lenses
People often use a little water when they put in the lenses. But that is very unwise. You have a parasite, the Acantamoeba, which occurs in source, swimming and sewage water. This can be very bad for your cornea. This is very difficult to treat and is often discovered far too late because it looks like you have a herpes infection.
So swimming with contact lenses is not really wise. That's annoying of course if you don't see much without it. Your eyes can sometimes sting from the lens fluid. There are packages for this with a non-preserved saline solution. These can be used a number of times in succession. We read this on the website of BNNVARA.
Some important do's and don'ts
- Really clean your lenses every day and go there, even if you come home late, don't sleep with it.
- Furthermore, it is better to not to shower with your lenses in and wash your hands before putting them in.
- Don't put them in your mouth before using them either. There may be bacteria in there.
- The daily lenses are of course for one day and the monthly lenses for a month, so stick to that too.
- Moreover, leave your eyes every 6 months check whether everything is still correct.
So if you really stick to all these rules, you will continue to enjoy it!