You’ve had the same contact lens case for a year. “You should clean out your case with fresh contact lens solution, wipe it out and let it dry completely, upside-down,” Phan says. Contact lenses should also never be worn while swimming, showering or in a hot tub, and cases should never be washed in water. This can lead to the contact lens scratching the cornea, giving germs easy access to your eye where they can cause an infection. In fact, water can cause soft contact lenses to change shape, swell and stick to the eye, according to the CDC. “A lot of people are not aware that you’re not able to wash contact lenses in water,” Vivian Phan, senior optometrist at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute, tells Yahoo Health. You clean your lenses or case with water.
Here’s a look at what you’re doing wrong when it comes to contact lenses - and what you should do instead. To raise awareness about the risks of not properly caring for your contacts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is declaring this Contact Lens Health Week. In severe cases, keratitis can lead to blindness or the need for corneal transplant. Research shows that each year there are 930,000 doctor’s office and outpatient clinic visits, as well as 58,000 emergency department visits, for keratitis or contact lens disorders. One type of keratitis, called microbial keratitis, can occur when bacteria, viruses and even amebae invade the cornea. The majority of contact lens users don’t use proper hygiene and that puts them at risk of eye infections, including inflammation of the cornea called keratitis. These scenarios may seem fairly harmless, but they could have more serious consequences than you realized. Or maybe you started going to sleep without removing them first. Maybe you fell into the habit of taking out your lenses without washing your hands. But eventually, you started to slack off. When you first started using contact lenses, chances are you had the best intentions and were vigilant about keeping your lenses clean and properly cared for. NineLife reserves the right to alter and enforce this Return and Refund Policy at any time without having to serve a prior notice to users.Less-than-stellar contact lens hygiene could put you at risk for serious infection. (Photo by Getty Images).
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