Are You Taking Care Of Your Soft Contact Lenses?
Tips to keep your soft contact lenses safe and comfortable
Soft contact lenses are only as good as the time you take to clean and care for them. And while some soft contact lenses can be worn without cleaning and storing, there may some days that this won’t be possible. Eye infections and injuries might keep you from putting your soft contact lenses in.
Give yourself a hand
Putting in and taking out your soft contact lenses is a matter of having clean hands.
And while that moisturizing soap is good for your hands, it’s not good for your soft contact lenses. Try to use a basic soap bar with warm water to wash your hands before touching your lenses.
Wash your hands for thirty to sixty seconds.
When you are done, you need to dry off your hands with a lint free towel. You don’t want lint or dust on your soft contact lenses.
The right solution
Now comes the time to find the right solution or line of products to clean and store your soft contact lenses. The choices are as diverse as the user.
You might stick with the traditional cleansing saline solution that is used only to clean the soft contact lenses.
Or you may opt to buy a solution that does more.
Soft contact lenses can be cleaned, stored, and disinfected with one solution in most cases. And the new ‘no rub’ formulas make the contacts simpler to clean and feel better in your eye.
The technique
Put your soft contact lenses in your clean palm when you need to clean them.
Pour the solution onto the inside of the lens.
If you have to rub your soft contact lenses, be gentle. And then rinse the debris (is any) with more solution. The contact lens is then ready for your eye or for storage.
Storing them away
The now clean soft contact lenses are ready to be stored. Fill the lens case with storage solution and place the contact into the solution.
The soft contact lenses will need to sit in the storage solution for at least four hours for the best results.
Soft contact lenses don’t take a lot of maintenance, but they last longer when you do it properly and consistently.