How to prevent a contact lens injury

This article if for all contact lens wears

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Always be sure to soak your contacts every night, Even if you are suppose to be able to leave them in over night......I had 2 week contacts and it almost cost me my eye site in my left eye.....This happened over night...

2. Always be sure to prevent scratching or rubbing the eye.......If irritation occurs, do not rub, rinse the irritated eye out with cold water or eye wash.....scratching to the retina could occur resulting in a ulcer on your retina....Ending in sensitivity to the eye and light, motion sickness and possibly blindness in the eye....

3. Never Contaminate one contact lens with the other, or spread infection from one eye to the next, always wash hands before and after each eye and contact is handled.....

Tips & Warnings

• If you begin to have one eye or the other to turn red, become really agitated, or painful.....Go to the Doctor Immediately, Do not wait to see if it will get better because it will not.....
• You eyes after the slightest injury, like mine doesn't take long to degrade, once the lesion or ulcer was on my eye form the tiniest lens scratch, Over night I almost lost my eye, And to this day my site is impaired and will never be the same, please kids TAKE OUT YOUR LENCES......I will never be able to wear a contact again, some the Optometrist fail to tell you in the office is Details......ASK ASK ASK, thats the only way you'll ever get the facts

[jenifer76]

on 4/14/2009 I hear ya!If you all of a sudden have blurry eye sight, take your contacts out!I had scratched my eye and left it all day... by midnight my eye REALLY hurt and I ended up having to go to the hospital.Thankfully there was no longterm damage... Great advice Amy!!!

[MidniteWriter]

on 1/24/2008 Good advice to protect your eyes. Thanks!