Contact Lens Care Guide

Good eye hygiene is indispensable to good eye health, and contact lens wearers’ should get into a daily habit of practicing measures for the well-being of their eyes. The following guidelines will assist you to ensure the ongoing protection and vitality of your eyes.

• Always wash your hands thoroughly before handling contact lenses.
• Use only sterile products recommended by your eye care practitioner to clean and disinfect your lenses. Keep in mind that saline solution and rewetting drops are not intended to disinfect contact lenses.
• Do not wash or store contact lenses in tap water.
• Carefully rub and rinse the surface of the contact lens before storing.
• Discard contact solution upon opening the case and use fresh solution each time contact lenses are put back in the case.
• Never swap lenses with someone else.
• Only replace lenses using your eye care practitioner’s prescribed schedule.
• Never put the contact lenses in your mouth.
• Do not sleep in contact lenses unless prescribed by your doctor, and never after swimming.
• See your optometrist regularly for a contact lens evaluation.
• Please see your eye care practitioner immediately should you experience redness, secretions, visual blurring or pain.