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If you wear contact lenses then there are some basic must be taken to prevent eye infections. Fundamental hygiene for wearing contacts is simple to do and will assist in maintaining healthy eyes.

Prior to placing contacts in your eyes, you need to thoroughly dry and wash your hands. Hands should be lathered and scrubbed for thirty seconds under warm water.

You may accidentally drop the lens down the drain and do not install contacts over a bathroom sink as sinks are full of bacteria. Instead work over a clean desk or table with a mirror. Open your contact case one side at a time so that you can make sure you don’t accidentally get your lenses mixed up.

After the first lens is in, do it again with the next lens. Dump any remaining solution down the drain and rinse the case with clean contact lens solution.

Never touch the tip of the bottle of solution for contact lenses at all. The keep the bottle and contents sterile will help.

Although it’s not a good idea to ever rub your eyes, if you wear soft contact lenses, this is particularly important. You might scratch your cornea and it could result in terrible injury. The contact solution never use water or saliva should only be rewetted.

Watch your eyes to the accumulation of mucus like material. This is an symptom of problems from contact lenses so it should be taken out until the problem has cleared up. To prevent contamination of the contact and this is to give the eye time to heal.

The contact lens case should be replaced every three months. You must replace your soft contact lenses as recommended by a physician. Do not attempt to wear your contact lenses longer than recommended by your doctor.

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