Keeping a Contact Case Clean

Video Transcript

"One of the common misnomers about contact lens care is that you can keep on using the same case for an indefinite period of time. Not only is that not true, but you need to clean the case that you are using probably at least once a week. Most of the time our contact lens cases are stored in the bathroom. The bathroom is a high...has a high intake of bacteria. So, there's a high probability that you can get stuff that you do not want on your contact on it if you do not clean your case. Here we just have again the simple case. What I would suggest doing, and there's a contact in here now but we'll ignore that. What you want to do is just take some soft soap and just scrub it out. It doesn't have to be super extravagant. You don't have to use a power cleaner, but you'll notice on older...if you have a screw on top; these are just snap ins for instance but, you'll kind of get grime and grit around the edges here and that's going to be very dangerous because that's bacteria. It's really close to your contact. So, I would say change your case out once a month but, up until then I would definitely clean it out once a week to make sure that your case is still protecting you from bacteria. You don't want that stuff on there. So, again just a soft soap would be fine. Make sure you take your contacts out of course but then scrub it down with soft soap. You can use the case for a month when you do that and then update to a new case. Generally speaking, opticians will give you a new case for free."