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[H1525]How To Read Contact Lens Prescription

by Mayoor Patel, May

Here are the things that you have to look for in a prescription to determine its validity:

1. The patient's name should appear in it. This important detail would prove that the person who has the prescription has gone through the necessary procedures essential to determine the right pair of contacts he or she has to get.

2. The date of the examination. The examination date has to be current. This ensures that the prescription is freshly made and that the patient is recently examined. This is very important in therapeutic contact lenses.

3. The issue date and the date of expiration of the prescription. These two sets of dates are equally important as the examination date. This solely determines if the prescription is still usable.

4. The doctor's information. To further assure the manufacturers and the sellers of the prescription's validity, they can proceed to call the doctor who made the prescription. They can do that to clear out anything that maybe vague or questionable to them.

5. The lens's power. The contact lens's power corresponds to its sphere, cylinder, or axis, when applicable. This detail is essential to determine the right pair for the intended user.

6. The material or the manufacturer of the lens. Contact lenses can be made of different materials. Some are made of Plexiglass, while some use Hydrogel. Most of the time, the brand of the contact lenses is enough to determine what kind of material is used.

7. The base curve and the diameter of the contact lens. These are the specifics of the lenses one is to buy. Here goes the actual specification as prescribed by the attending eye physician. These are determined by the tests conducted to the patient.

8. The contact lens's manufacturer information. In case the doctor prescribed a private label contact lens, this information is needed. It would help the seller to verify the exact pair you have to get.

These are what compose a contact lens prescription. Each component is important, because it will lead you to the perfect pair. And more importantly, these are the requirement of the FTC. Contact lenses are still considered medical devices, even though if it is used for aesthetic purposes. That's why contact lens prescriptions, with all these information, are a requisite.

However, it's another matter that even a bespectacled look is now considered dignified and is thought to indicate intelligence and competence. But that has not affected the ever increasing popularity of contact lenses, and now they graduated from vision correction devices to cosmetic accessories, which means that even those who have sound vision are looking for contacts to enhance their looks. And if you are one of the contacts users, it is important for you to know a few things about how to take care of your contacts.

1. To begin with, before you put the contacts on or off wash your hands in order to make sure that you don't let germs and dirt go into your eyes. After washing use a lint-free towel to wipe your hands dry.

2. No moisturizing soaps, for they do not go very well down with contact lenses. That may be good for your skin but when you go to wash your hands to apply contacts, use normal soap.

3. Use only the recommended solution to wash your lenses and be very regular with it, for it removes the dirt and sticky deposit. Some of the lenses may need a thorough rubbing for good cleaning while the others may work with simple rinsing in the solution.

4. Disinfecting your lens is another important measure, for which you just need to make sure that your lens case is clean at all times and the disinfecting fluid is changed periodically so that it itself does not get contaminated over a period of time. The process of disinfection kills microorganisms, which could otherwise harm the eyes.

One last thing that needs to be pointed out is that if you are not using a disposable lens, do consider using protein remover because though normal cleansing does some protein cleaning but that's not enough. Taking care of your lenses is a good way to make sure that they take care of your eyes in equal measure.

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