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How To Wear & Remove Your Lens!
STEP 1: Always, always, always wash your hands!
STEP 2: Check to see if your lens is right-side up.
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Your contact lens should look like a bowl when viewed from its side profile.
STEP 3: How to insert your contact lenses
* Make sure that your fingers are clean and dry. (Dry fingers facilitate handling as soft contact lenses tend to stick to wet fingers)
* Remove your lens from the storage case.
* It is a good idea to get in the habit of always working with the same lens first, the right or left, in order to avoid mix-ups.
* Rinse your lens with the solution recommended by your eye care practitioner to remove all traces of debris.
* Place the lens on the tip of your index finger.
* Using the middle finger of your other hand, pull and hold your upper lid so that you cannot blink.
* Pull down your lower eyelid, using the middle finger of your inserting hand.
* Look up and place the lens gently on the lower white part of your eye.
* Slowly release your eyelid and close your eye for a moment.
* Blink several times to center the lens on your eye.
*Sometimes small dust particles trapped behind the lens during its placement can cause discomfort. To remove dust, slide the lens off and then back onto the front of your eye.
* Insert the other lens following the same procedure.
STEP 4: How to remove your contact lenses
* Wash and dry your hands.
* Make sure that your lens is centered correctly on your eye.
* Looking up, pull down your lower eyelid with the middle finger of your inserting hand.
* Bring your index finger close to your eye until you touch the lower edge of the lens.
* Slide the lens down to the lower white part of your eye.
* Gently squeeze the lens between your thumb and index finger and remove it from your eye.
* Follow the lens care procedures recommended by your eye care practitioner.
* Remove the other lens and follow the same procedure.
Cleaning of Your Lens.
Normal saline: Rinses
Cleaner: Cleans
Multipurpose solution: Disinfects, Removes proteins, Stores, Cleans, Retains moisture.
Follow the steps below:
Before put your lens on,
1. Rinse your lens with a multi-purpose or saline solution.
2. Place the lens in your eyes.
After take your lens out,
1. Drop 3 drops of cleaner and rub gently.
2. Rinse your lens with multi-purpose or saline solution.
3. Store in lens case filled with multipurpose solution.
The lenses should not be stored for more than 7 days, have to re-disinfect by changing the multipurpose solution before the next use.
Caring for Your Lens.
For the continued safe and comfortable use of your lenses, it is important to follow the instructions given to you by your Eye Care Practitioner.
Failure to follow the correct lens care regime may result in the development of serious eye problems.
Cleaning and rinsing are essential to remove mucus, secretions, and deposits which may have accumulated during use. Do this immediately after removing your lenses and prior to disinfection.
Harmful germs can only be removed by cleaning, rinsing and disinfecting.
*Use fresh, unexpired lens care solutions.
*Never use solutions recommended for conventional hard lenses only.
*Never put your lenses in your mouth or use anything other than the recommended solutions for lubricating or wetting your lenses.
*Never rinse them in tap water, since this can contain many impurities that can contaminate or damage your lenses and may lead to eye infection or injury.
*Put each lens into the correct chamber of the lens storage system and make sure they are completely immersed in the storage solution when they are not being worn. If lenses left out for long periods, they may dry out and become brittle.
*Seek the advice of your Eye Care Practitioner if your lenses are to be stored for extended periods.
*Since lens cases can be a source of bacteria, after use they should be emptied, cleaned and rinsed with recommended sterile solutions and allowed to air dry.
*Your lens case should also be replaced regularly, as advised by the lens case manufacturer or your Eye care Practitioner.
*Never use tap water to rinse your lens case.
*Don’t sleep in them
*If you go swimming take them out because the chemicals in a pool are rough on non prescription contact lenses.
Cosmetic Tips.
Being a contact lens wearer does not mean giving up wearing eye make-up.
*Make-up should be applied after lens insertion. Lenses should be removed before removing make-up
*A fast-drying, fiber free mascara is recommended
*Eye shadow in cream form or as a compact powder has been shown to be the best type for lens wearers
*Liquid eye-liner can lead to some tinting of soft contact lenses
*Eye-color pencil should not be applied directly on edge of lower eyelid – better to apply on edge of lower eyelash
*For removal of eye make-up, it is best to use a rich eye make-up remover or water-soluble cleaning emulsions
*Hand creams, sunscreens and nail polish remover should not be allowed to come into direct contact with the lenses; they can penetrate the lens
*Care should be used when applying deodorant spray, hair spray, perfume, etc. Aerosols should be avoided when lens case or lens care bottles are standing open. Eyes should be closed when spraying!
*In an incident: Contamination from cosmetics should be treated with contact lens cleaning solutions only
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