Contact Lens Care

Do

• Wash your hands and dry them before handling your contact lenses.
• Clean and disinfect your lenses each time you remove them. Have a back-up pair of current glasses in case of any problems with the contacts.
• Rinse your lens case daily with fresh solution and let air dry.
• Replace your lens case every eight to 10 weeks.
• Take off your contacts and wear your glasses if your eyes are red or painful, or there is any discharge, and call our office.
• Keep all your eye appointments as recommended by your eye doctor.
• Follow your doctor’s instructions to clean the lids if you have eyelid inflammation. This is important for increased comfort of your contact lenses.
• Apply makeup only after you have put in your contact lenses.
• Remove contact lenses before removing eye makeup.
• Completely remove eye makeup at night. Consider SteriLid (TheraTears) or Lid Scrub (OCuSOFT) for makeup removal.

Do Not

• Sleep in your contacts.
• Put contact lenses in a red, irritated, or light-sensitive eye.
• Swim or shower in your contacts.
• Wear your contacts longer than the prescribed time—even if they feel comfortable.
• Allow the tip of cleaning solutions to touch any surfaces (such as fingers, case, lenses).
• Reuse any lens care solution.
• Use eye drops or solutions not recommended by your doctor. Solutions are not interchangeable.
• Wear your contact lenses in the presence of harmful or irritating vapors or fumes.
• Use expired contact lenses or solutions.
• Put contact lenses in your mouth or use saliva to wet the lens.
• Rinse contact lenses or the contact lens case with tap water or other non-sterile liquid.

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