Contact Lenses Care: Is It That Important?

Contact lenses care presupposes a number of steps in lenses care, mode of contact lenses wear, and repeated visits to doctor. The reality of modern life is such that most people do not want to admit the importance of proper contact lenses care, as a result, they do not treat it with due attention.

Patients fail to keep to the rules of contact lenses wear due to different reasons:

• They cannot remember all the recommendations; sometimes, doctors forget to give proper instructions;
• Insufficient motivation to keep the rules of contact lenses care: patients consider contact lenses care difficult and time consuming;
• Patients try to save their money: they start to wear cheaper contact lenses (without doctor’s approval), use insufficient solution at cleaning and disinfection, omit some steps in contact lenses care, overwear contact lenses;
• Patients follow bad advice of their friends who insist that there is no need to observe the rules of contact lenses care.

Though patients may fail to observe different rules in contact lenses care, still, there are the most “popular” rules that patients ignore. So, patients often:

1. Don’t wash their hands before using contact lenses;
2. Omit some steps in contact lenses care;
3. Use insufficient solutions;
4. Do not wash lenses after cleaning well enough;
5. Don’t care of lenses container;
6. Can put on dirty contact lenses;
7. Can reuse the solution which was already used for disinfection;
8. Use retarded solutions.

Failure to follow doctor’s advice in the mentioned spheres may lead to different complications of contact vision correction – ranging from slight eye irritation to those that threat vision as a whole. Severe complications, such as allergic reactions, and infectious complications may result from reluctance to follow the rules of contact lenses care.

Contact Lenses Care: Late Renewal

Late renewal of contact lenses remains one of the most burning problems of contact lenses care. The problem is crucial in all countries – no matter whether it is an economically developed country or the one where economy which leaves much to be desired. By nature, most people try to save their money – the problem of overwearing is rooted in economic aspect uppermost.

Contact Lenses Care: Hygiene

Failure to comply with hygiene rules is one of contraindications in contact vision correction. Wash your hands with soap, then wash them under the water sheet, make sure your hands are dry before touching contact lenses. Don’t forget about your contact lenses container – if it is dirty, microbes can enter contact lenses as well which may lead to serious diseases.

As microbes cannot be seen with the naked eye, patients tend to underestimate the danger of contamination, and, therefore, they use one and the same container for a long time. To help patients, manufacturing companies offer a new container along with a multifunctional solution. Thus, CIBA Vision Company offers a new container Microblock with antibacterial effect along with SOLO Care Aqua solution.

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