Thanks to contact lenses that we can see clearly with the help of them while not influencing our appearance. But at the same time, they also require some cleaning and maintenance. Regular maintenance is good for our eyes heath and lengthening the usable life of contact lenses. But it is true that a large number people do not have a clear idea on how to clean and maintain contact lenses and many people consider it to be troublesome and do not like to do it. Just considering the lenses will stick to our cornea and everyday dust and foreign articles will stick on it, you will know the consequence of lack of or improper maintenance. The following will raise some points on contact lenses maintenance in the hope that it will give people some help.
The first important point is making sure to wash your hands once you contact the lens. Our hands also have some dust and dirt on them, if we use the dirty hand to handle contact lenses, the dirts will stick to the lens and may cause some eye disorders or diseases. What’s the worse, the lens may be scratched if there are dirts on our hands.
Every time you remove your contact lenses, you must clean them before storing them in the container for next time use. Then how to clean them? You can clean them by cleaning solution according to the steps prescribed on the packaging of the solution or your eye doctor’s advice. The cleaning can remove the attached dirt and dust so as to offer a healthy environment for your eyes.
After proper cleaning, the next step is to rinse your lens, which can take off the debris from the lens. You may wonder to know what we can use to rinse the lens. Researches show it will be better to use Luke warm water instead of hot water or cold water as warm water can not only remove the debris, but also can not damage the lens as hot water does.
Last but not least, please don’t forget to clean the lens container. Though cleaning and rinsing the lens is important, our work can be in vain if we put the lens in the container which is not cleaned. Therefore, it is important to clean your lens container regularly, and then put the lens in the container with disinfecting solution.
From the above introduction, we can see that the maintenance of contact lenses is not difficult, but it requires persistence. All of the above points will ensure you to have good eyesight with the help of contact lens, and more important is your eyes will be healthier.
The most important thing to remember is not to forget any of the above steps as missing out one time may cause you a lot of inconvenience.