How to Not Let Contact Lens Care and Maintenance Cramp Your Style

Contacts have many benefits: comfort, style, and quality of vision; however, contact lenses have plenty of maintenance and care associated with them. Taking proper care of your lenses is very important to prevent infections and discomfort, but doing so can take time. It can be tempting to rush through the care process and skip steps, but doing so can severe consequences. So instead of doing that, try these tips for spending less time taking care of your lenses. There are several steps to contact lens maintenance. If you save time on each part then you'll save time on the process on a whole, without having to skip an entire step.

Putting them in and taking them out.

For people new to contact lenses, this can be a time consuming process. Trying to put them in and take them out can take repeated tries and sometimes you even drop the lens. If you do drop your lens, then you must disinfect it. You should not skip this step to save time. Instead, remember that with practice you will be able to take them in and out very quickly without ever dropping them. So be patient in the beginning and learn to do properly and eventually this step won't take any time at all.

If you are having a great deal of difficulty learning to put in and take out your contact lenses, then you could consider asking your eye doctor to show you how to do again. You can also search for instruction online or in books, but be careful that the author of the book or internet article is qualified to be giving advice and isn't telling incorrect and possibly harmful information. Your eye doctor is the best source for answers about your eyes and they shouldn't hesitate to answer your questions.

Putting them away for the night.

Putting them away for the night is probably the most time consuming part of lens care and maintenance. With some multi-purpose contact lens solutions you have to rub the solution on the lens every night. Even with no-rub solutions you should still rinse the lenses with the solution. This step is vital and should never be skipped or cut short. One way to save time, though, is to keep all of your supplies together and in easy reach. Develop a system and keep it a regular habit. If you do it every day in the same way, you'll get faster at it than if you do something slightly different every time. Even small changes such as doing one eye first rather than the other can throw you off and make you have to pause and think for a minute, wasting time.

Dealing with eye discomfort.

Many people associate dry, red, irritated eyes with contacts, with much time spent putting in eye drops and taking contacts in and out. Contacts don't have to be so uncomfortable. If your contacts are irritating your eyes a lot you should talk to your doctor about trying a different kind of lens. There are many out now that are designed with people who have dry eyes in mind. You may find that once you have changed to better contact lenses you no longer will have need for eye drops.

If you've tried almost every lens there is and you already have the best that there is for you, and your eye doctor has checked for any underlining problems, and you still have eye discomfort and irritation, you could try wearing them for only 6-8 hours during the time you need them most and wearing glasses the other times. You can also try taking an entire day off every week to give your eyes rest and time to recover.