Contact Lens Solution
If you wear contacts, you already know that you can find contact lens solution at nearly every grocery or drug store. There are many different brands and various products that all promise to keep your contact lenses clean and your eyes healthy. With so many available choices, choosing the right contact lens solution may seem a little overwhelming. The important thing is to understand how to properly care for your contact lens and to discover which solutions work best with your contacts prescription. If you are not vigilant, you will have trouble with the fit of your contacts, possible eye infections and even blindness.
Today, it is easy to keep contact lenses clean and sanitary. One bottle, contact lens solution and contacts that can be worn and thrown away, have made lens care much easier.
Once you create a lens care regimen, you should be sure not to change it without first consulting your optician. This is because while, there are many contact lens solutions and care systems available, all of them are not comparable. In fact, some may even destroy your contact lens if they are incompatible with your prescription. Other products may even hurt your eyes.
It is also very important to safely handle your lenses and cleaning solution. This is especially true, considering reported outbreaks of fungal eye infections connected to a very popular lens cleaning solutions.
Here are some lens care basics.
1. Be sure to cleanse your hands with soap and water so that you do not get germs in your eyes. Don't use moisturizing soaps, they are bad for your contacts.
2. Take one lens out, wash it with contact lens solution. Then do the same with the second lens.
3. Rinse lenses again to ensure that all of the dirt and build up is removed.
4. Put your lenses in a clean lens case and place fresh cleaning solution into them. Don't simply add to old liquid that you have previously placed in the case.
Now, let's discuss some of the various types of contact lens cleaning solutions available on the market.
Daily Cleaner: This type of solution is designed to keep your contacts clean. You simply rub the contacts with the solution for about 20 seconds.
Saline Solution: Saline shouldn't be used for disinfecting or cleansing your contacts. Instead, it is for storing and rinsing your contacts when you are using enzymatic cleaning tablets, or with some other disinfection system.
Multipurpose Solution: This type of solution is used for disinfecting, rinsing, cleaning and storing your lenses.
Hydrogen peroxide solution: This type of solution is also used for storing, cleaning, rinsing and disinfecting your lenses.
Contact cleaning solution is designed to prevent dirt and build up from becoming a problem with your lenses. If it is allowed to do so, contact users will experience discomfort when wearing their contacts and the likelihood of infection increases. This can prove very serious and can even lead to blindness. One should work with their optician to come up with a contact lens care plan and then stick with it. For individuals who use disposable contact, there may very little need for contact cleaning solution, depending on how often the contacts are used and disposed of. However, for individuals who keep their contact lenses for longer periods of time, contact cleaning solution is a very important part of the lens care regimen.