Contact Lenses - Tips for Cleaning and Daily Care

Contact Lenses Tips for Cleaning Cleaning your contact lenses will help promote good health and reduce your risk of infection. Tips for Cleaning Soft Contact Lenses Soft contact lenses are more likely than hard lenses to absorb pollutants in the air and in the environment including smoke, sprays, fumes and other substances. Here are some basic steps you can take for cleaning soft contact lenses: Wash your hands. If you clean your lenses with dirty hands you'll just transfer the germs from your hands to your lenses. Remove one of your contact lenses and place in the center of the palm of yo hands. Add a few drops of cleaning solution to the outer surface of the lens. Clean the 2nd lens the same way. Rinse your lens with a cleaning solution then replace in the lens case. Never rinse your soft lenses with water. Fill the lens case with cleaning solution. Always use new solution and never "top off" from the night before. Using the pad of your index finger on your opposite hand, gently rub the cleaning solution into the lens for about one minute with a side to side motion. Rigid Contact Lenses Rigid contact lenses are cleaned just like soft contact lenses only you need to rinse the contact lenses in fresh tap water after rubbing the cleaning solution on the surface of the lens. Oakes Opticians