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Summary: Learn techniques on contact lens solutions and cleaners in this free vision and eye care video.
Elton Hall has been an Optician for over 13 years. He is currently a manager at Texas State Optical in Austin Texas and in charge of the contact lens department.read more
"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. Now we're going to talk about different solutions for contact lenses. There's quite a bit. This is not all of them. They do make quite a bit. Make sure when you do get solution for your contact lenses, make sure that it is directly for your contact lenses. You can read on the boxes itself. Most of them are a multi purpose solution that you can get that cleans, disinfects, and it also keeps the contact lens's moisture better. You also have saline solution. Normal saline solution that you can get. There's disinfectant cleaners and everything like that too, and also made for hard contact lenses. If you have any questions, consult your doctor about what type of solution that you want to use and then kind of go from there. If you're having any problems out of any of the solutions, you can try different ones. There are quite a few that you can try. Most of them are multi-purpose solution, but depending on what's good for you, you can test some of them out. Just kind of know what's better for you. If you have any types of infections of anything like that or if you're having any problems out of the solution, make sure that you do consult your doctor about that. If you have any questions you can just call them and ask them about that. "