How to Wear 30 Day Contact Lenses

Video Transcript

"I'm Dr. Edward Weaver with Wilmington Optometry in Wilmington, North Carolina on behalf of Expert Village to tell you how to care for you contact lenses. A 30-day lens. There are less and less disposable lenses now for 30 days continuous wear either overnight or other. They're kind of in this feel is going towards shorter and shorter disposable periods, and that's why most people now are wearing two week lenses. The number that are wearing one day or daily contact lenses is increasing all the time too. There are 30-day lenses still available. However, the number of people that are wearing them is decreasing. One notable one is a disposable lens that is available for 30 days continuous wear overnight. There are two lenses that are FDA approved for that. The nitch that that fits into are those wearers that are determined to wear their lenses overnight, sleep in them overnight. These lenses that are approved for that are the healthiest for their eyes. There are not other lenses that are healthy for that many nights, 30 continuous nights overnight wear. There are no other lenses that are healthy for that. There are two that available. They're recommend and they work real well for that, and that's usually what I recommend if somebody is sleeping with their contacts overnight."