Contact lens care extra tips

Here are some contact lens care extra tips you need to know.

Before cleaning your contact lenses, always wash your hands thoroughly with fragrance-free soap, and dry your hands on a lint-free towel. Perfumed soap can be irritating to your eyes, and towel lint can add to the debris you're having to remove from your contact lenses.

Keep water away from your contact lenses, contact lens accessories. This includes while swimming and showering. Water can carry with it tiny microorganisms, like Acanthamoeba, which can cause serious eye infections. When showering, close your eyes when rinsing to keep water from getting on your contacts. You can wear goggles when swimming to help protect your contact lenses. To be safe, you may want to use one day or daily contact lenses when swimming or spending time in a hot tub. These can be discarded after your activities, and keep your eyes healthy and safe from water-related infections.

Avoid contaminating your contact lens care solution bottle tip by keeping it away from everything, including your hand or body. Contact with anything could contaminate the solution.

Stay away from smoke, fumes, and vapors when wearing your contacts. These may contaminate your contact lenses.

Remember to regularly clean the accessories you use with your contact lenses. This included your contact lens case, enzymatic protein removal vials, cleaning and disinfecting devices, and so on. Follow the instructinos on the product packaging and from your eye doctor.

For greatest safety and contact lens comfort, clean, rinse, and disinfect your contact lenses every day.

Replace your contact lens case once a month to make sure your are not in danger of an eye infection from an unsanitary one.

And finally, always follow the instructions on your contact lens related product packages, and all directions from your eye doctor to keep your eyes healthier. Your eyes and your contact lenses with thank you.