Top 5 Eye Care Precautions for Contact Lens Wearers

Contact lenses have come a long way since they came into being and are now the most used vision correction medical devices. They provide comfort, confidence and freedom to millions of people around the globe. But always keep in mind to consult a professional eye care person before going for lenses whether they are for vision correction or for beautifying proposes. As mentioned earlier, these are medical devices and should be treated like one. They are not risk-free and must be handled with utmost responsibility and hygiene.

Lenses come in direct contact with your eyes that’s why the risk of infections is ten folds as compared to glasses. We are surrounded by germs, they live on our fingers, rest on our eyelids and are inevitable to evade. Germs like fungi and bacteria can cause potential eye diseases if transported to eyes through contacts. Contacts come in a wide variety of materials, tints and shapes, but contact lens safety is applicable to all. Circle lenses are a new trend in South Asian countries and makes your eyes look bigger and beautiful, but the safety measures must be taken for them as well.

The habits you develop, instruction given by your eye care professional and updated supplies are all vital to make sure you have optimal and healthy eyes. Here we have lined up some top eye care precautionary measures to help you understand the importance of hygiene while handling contacts.

1.      Get prescribed contacts always

This is the first step and is very crucial; don’t just pick any pair of lenses on the counter from a drug store or local market. Even if you are buying colored or circle lenses for a change in the look and has nothing to do with vision correction. Prescribed lenses are best as they are advised to you according to your eyes and are best suited for the eyes.

2.      Wash the hands before inserting or removing

Contamination can happen if your hands are dirty and one must avoid doing that at all times. Wash your hands with a mild soap and then pat them dry before inserting or removing the contacts.

3.      Never sleep in your contacts

This is a very important thing and contact lens wearers must abide by it. The threat of infection increases up to 8 times when sleeping with contacts on. Sleeping on contacts reduces oxygen flow and any bacteria on contacts get a welcome chance to mingle with the cornea.

4.      Water and lenses are bitter enemies

You don’t want your contacts to interact with any sort of water. Swimming, hot showers, or tap water splashes must be avoided as water carries Acanthamoeba that can cause serious eye infections.

5.      Lens cases matter

Lens cases are very important as you store the lenses in them. Rinse them thoroughly with the lens solution to disinfect them completely and dry them with tissue. When all the lingering bacteria is wiped off, place the lens inside the case. Replace them after every 3 months to keep a good sterile environment for the lenses.

By keeping a healthy, hygienic regime you can enjoy lenses for a long time without any problem.  

Change Your Perspective with Smart Contact Lenses

Gone are the days when contact lenses were mere vision correcting medical devices. With companies like Samsung, Sony, Google, Medella and many more, investing millions of dollars on research and development of smart lenses that would change our perspective and the way we see the world around us. Smart contact lenses will give us superhero abilities and an unprecedented confidence to accomplish new heights and encourage us to set higher goals for ourselves. A few years back, this idea was laughed at as science fiction but it is going to be a scientific revolution and fact.

What are Smart Contact Lenses?

Just like your basic vision correcting, cheap colored contact lenses, smart lenses will inherit the features of their predecessors.  Easy to handle and won’t require any surgery, they will sit on your eyeballs but unlike the older counterparts they will change the way you perceive the world. They will enhance human aptitudes, skills and propensities and surge them to a whole new level. The main focus is to achieve Augmented Reality to initiate an interface of human eye and computer-like features. In the not-so-distant future there would be endless possibilities to explore and the world will revise around us.

Smart contact lenses will be laced with many micro technologies such as Auto-focusing, Bluetooth, display, battery, CPU, tear film, Radio and many more advancements that would be just mind-blowing and awe-inspiring. Imagine having the ability to zoom in on anything by just enlarging your eyes, taking pictures by blinking your eyes, scrolling down your playlist by moving eyes, checking your appointments, glancing at the phone without holding it. The possibilities are endless; making them the most anticipated invention of the modern times.

What can Smart Contact Lenses do for us?

Even though lenses are revolutionized and made into a micro-computer they are still lenses and they must do something extraordinary to correct the vision problems. Well, good news is, they will treat eye problems and infection like never before. Eye conditions like myopia, cataracts, glaucoma can all be treated with Smart contact lenses. Not just that, they can also make us see in the dark with clearness, isn’t that amazing!

Smart contact lenses are not only for sharpening your vision they are designed to do far more than that. Designed to monitor other health issues as well, especially blood glucose levels without invasion. They will indicate when blood sugar reaches an unhealthy level. Smart lenses will also be able to keep eye allergies like redness and itchiness at bay as they will be pre-loaded with drops that would evade allergens. Smart lenses are designed to give us relief from digital strain by having aspheric curves that would aid the eyes to adapt between digital and real world. They have another, these lenses are designed to retain moisture and keep the eyes humid. Smart phone control is another futuristic idea that is being researched and we will soon be clicking pictures and scrolling down screens with our eyes.

All these are common consumer benefits but look at the larger picture, imagine what they can do for a doctor, for police and army operations. Many of the things are far from consumer reach and are just ideas which will take years to get perfect and fit for human use, but we can say this with confidence that the future is bright!