Avoid Contact Lens Overuse
When used abusively, contact lenses can unfortunately cause more harm than good to our vision. Let’s learn some experts’ tips on how not to overuse contacts.
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Have you heard the eye condition called Keratitis? No? Then this is a must read for you, especially if you are using contact lenses. This condition happens to your eyes when your cornea or the dome shaped window to the eyes is scarred and thereby becomes infected. Such a scar extremely affects one’s eyesight. And in the study of American Academy of Ophthalmology (2023), this condition was found to be because of extended use of our contact lens or what we commonly call — contact lens overuse.
After a tiring and busy day of using contact lenses, we may impose ourselves with some reasons for not removing them like tiredness or forgetfulness. True, your minds may forgive you but certainly not your health. The overuse of contacts has clinically been found to be one of the leading causes of eye infection whichleads to long-term problems.
Here at King and Rose optical, we are committed to providing you with affordable and personalized lenses. We extend our service to giving you some world-class eye care that prepares your exact eye prescription, and guidance on how to use these lenses, so as to avoid overuse and harm. Our experts are waiting for you in North Austin! Until then, check out these tips on how to correctly use your contacts.
Spare Glasses: The Top Protection Tool To Prepare & Secure
Having no extra glasses and relying solely your clear vision to contacts takes the leading reason for lens overuse. This is where people wear contacts extensively because they have no extra eyewear to put on that gives them better vision. Every user of lenses should make sure to have a spare pair of glasses which they can wear at times that he/she must remove the lenses from the eyes.
The reason is simple; the longer the lenses sit on the eyes, the higher the possibility of eye strains. Having spare glasses around will allow your eyes to rest but without compromising the benefit of good eyesight.
A good practice of removing lenses will be at the beginning and end of the day. When sleeping at night, we should definitely remove the lenses and not sleep with them on.When we wake up, we can wear the spare glasses just until we need to go out or start our daily activities. To make it easy, build it into your daily practice or routine so it requires less effort.
18 Hours/each Rule
We may get confused with the idea of overuse in our lenses and ask “when are we overusing the contacts?” Several studies report that in a week, when our lenses are in our eyes for about 18 hours, they are already overstaying. This is where the problem starts!
Just like our bodies, our eyes need to take in oxygen. When contacts are in, we are denying them this necessity thus forcing them to produce blood vessels and blurring the vision.
Just Sleep, Don’t Bring Contacts With You
It is a fact to say that sleeping with your contact lenses on, regardless of length or span at which you are sleeping, adds up to the threat of destroying your eye health. This is a common practice of people who are seeking medical intervention for certain health problems like corneal aberration, keratitis, etc.
Sleeping with contact lenses in our eyes means depriving your eyes the breathing and hydration it needs for protecting healthy eyesight. Doing this poses alarming adverse implications to our cornea, which nobody should disregard.
Your Eyes Need Obedience and Discipline
A common yet unfortunate misconception in the minds of contact lens users is that we can use or wear these lenses as much as we are comfortable using them, and replace them when we want to. The comfort you get in the time that these contacts need to be replaced, the eye health is already declining.
The benefits afforded to you by these contacts are paired also with precautions you ought to follow yourself. Contact lenses are designed to be replaced in a given time at which you need to see your doctor. For you to be safe from long-term adverse effects, you must religiously attend to this. Your discipline and obedience therefore play a crucial role.
You may be convinced with the idea of saving your money for not following this tip, but remember that when long-term and serious eye conditions are at stake, it will be your vision that pays the price.
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