Types of Contact Lenses

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Elton Hall and I'm here at Texas State Optical in Austin, Texas. I'm here on behalf of Expert Village, and I'm going to show you how to care for your contact lenses. Different types of contact lenses require different types of solution. If you have a gas perm contact lens, which is a hard contact lens, you need to make sure that you get something made directly for gas perm contact lenses. These are not soft contact lens. You'll know if you have gas perm contact lenses, hard contacts, or not. There's different types of solution for soft contact lenses. You can use either for these or any of these. Also, ask your doctor about which ones to use, which would be better for you. Daily contact lenses, which those are the annual contact lenses that you can get and they will last you a full year. You probably would need to get that disinfecting solution or something to clean those contact lenses a little bit better. Depending on how often you wear them as well. Any of the other contact lenses you can probably just get a multi purpose solution. It's a cleaning disinfectant and moisturizing solution for your contact solution."