CONTACT LENS CARE

HANDLING:

NEVER let tap water get to your contact lenses. Tap water can carry amoeba, which can get to your contacts and then give you serious eye problems, including blindness. You should ALWAYS wash your hands with soap or a hand sanitizer prior to handling your contact lenses, either to insert them or remove them. When drying your hand, choose a lint-free towel or use paper towels because if the lint gets to your contacts you will be miserable (it will feel like you have an eyelash on your cornea). Always keep the contact lenses in CLEAN cases with saline solution. You have to switch the solution daily or, if you don't wear your contacts everyday, switch them as you wear them but never leave the contacts emerged in saline that has been in the case longer than one week. Keep your cases clear and disinfected, but don't let them have any drop of tap water inside them. Make sure they are dry and tap water free before filling them with saline and placing your lenses in them.

CLEANING:

If you wear daily disposables, you can get away without cleaning them or just using a saline solution to clean them if necessary during the day, because at the end of the day you will just throw them out anyways. But if your lenses are not disposable, the very best way to clean them is with a chemical disinfectant, such as opti-free and clear care (the ones where you place the contacts in the disk and place the disk in the cup filled with the appropriate corresponding cleansing solution). Please remember that you should not rinse your contacts with that solution and place them in your eye because your eyes WILL BURN and may be damaged. You should rinse the contacts with a regular saline solution.

You should also try to use an enzymatic cleaner once a week (tablets) and a protein removed everyday if you can. It may seem a bit obsessive to be so clean, but once you wear contacts and like them you won't want to stop wearing them, so you don't want to have eye infections or allergies (such as GPC) and have to spend a long time giving your eyes a rest just because you did not remove the protein deposits from your lenses.