Contact lens cleaner is not corrosive to the eye, though if left inside for a long time can harm it. If you have had such a cleaner accident, remove your contact lenses immediately and liberally splash cold water into your eyes. Wait for sometime before you insert the contact lens in the affected eye again. If itching, redness or watering persists, go to your eye doctor immediately.
How Did The Cleaner Get In My Eye?
Now that's a question with many answers. Patients have confessed to several reasons how the lens cleaner meant strictly for their contact lenses got into their eye in the first place.
The most popular cause of this kind of an accident with lens cleaner was that they put the cleaner in the eye themselves hoping it would help dry eyes. In other instances, contact cleaner was put in along with the contact lens to help it to settle in the eye more easily.
There is more?. one patient reported that he believed putting lens cleaner in his eyes, while he was wearing his contact lenses would actually keep them clean. Yet another one did not understand the instructions for using the contact cleaner.
A lens cleaner is a special cleaner for contact lenses and helps remove loose dirt and debris from your contact lens. Manufactured by all leading lens makers contact cleaner preparations use several chemicals like edetate disodium and sorbic acid.
To avoid such a cleaner accident read instructions for use carefully and see an eye doctor if you still happen to have an accident.
Buying a pair of contacts is easy. Anyone who has a tiny income can buy himself or herself a pair. Actually, teenagers today find the contacts a great way of expressing themselves, sometimes having some 10-15 pairs to keep changing. How much do you know about contact lens care?
What Actually is Contact Lens Care?
The process by which the product is maintained and kept functional is called maintenance, or as in our context here, care. The steps you need to cover the minimum and most basic contact lens care is outlined below:
* Be sure you understand the instructions list and do exactly as you are told. Any deviation from the instruction, however small it may look to you, may be extremely harmful to you and your eyes in the long run.
* Always touch your lenses only after you washed your hands with soap. Be careful while changing or using them, that the lenses are not exposed to anything that is dirty.
* Always use a good brand of cleaning solution; do not just go for anything that the shop keeper offers you, or whatever it is available in the shop. Identify a brand that is good, and then stick to it.
* Never put your lenses in the mouth; this can capture sufficient bacteria to damage your eyes forever.
* If you wear makeup, put your lenses on last; sometimes particles from makeup will get into the eye. It’s best to put them on last.
* Check with your doctor at least once in 6-12 months to ensure that your eye sight and the use of the eye-lens have not changed.
* Follow all the cleaning procedures mentioned in the instructions to the T; any negligence here may introduce a number of infections to your eyes which can not only be very painful, but also very dangerous.
* In case you use eyes drops, have a time gap of about 30 minutes before replacing your lenses in your eyes; otherwise the contacts may absorb some of the eye drops which are not good for you or for the lenses.
* Be careful what brand you are using and what is recommended for your lens. Many times, people ignore the instructions using whatever solutions they can lies their hands on, only to find that they have actually damaged not only their lenses but also their eyes by it.
Contact lens care is one of the most critical factors in maintaining your eye sight, and keeping your eyes beautiful and healthy.
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