How to Clean Your Contacts

Video Transcript

"I'm Dr. Jim Kirkconnell of Bellevue Eye Care Center, in Nashville, Tennessee. The question is, How do you clean contact lenses? Well first of all, with disposable contact lenses, almost everybody gets boxes that say no rub on it. Now, that's not what I think, and certainly, you strip off 90% of the mucus and buildup, and actually the bacteria, whenever you do rubbing for ten seconds on the side. What you do is you put eight drops or a puddle, in the palm of your hand, and then you have the lens on your index finger, and you rub ten times in a circle on one side, you flip it over, and then you do the same thing on the other side, and then you're going to want to hold the lens, and squirt it, and then put it in fresh disinfectant overnight, and that is something that really allows the disinfectant to kill the microbes much better, and it's going to make your contacts feel better, whenever you put them on, and also toward the end of the usual disposable life, which is two weeks, or one month, depending on which lens you are wearing. It's going to make them feel better, and you'll see better out of them, so again, cleaning is good, not rubbing is bad."