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How to Handle Your Contact Lenses
Before you put on your contact lenses always ensure that you wash your hands with soap, rinse them thoroughly and dry them with a clean towel.Ciba Vision Getting Started in Contact Lens Weat from WeLoveLenses on Vimeo
Putting on your contact lenses
Put your contact lens on the palm of your hand and make sure that it looks clean.Check that your contact lens is not torn.
Check that your contact lens is the right way around. If the edges flare up slightly it is the wrong way around. We can insert picture here. Some brands have markers on the lenses which make it easier for you tell the difference.
Place the contact lens on your forefinger. Use the forefinger on your opposite hand to hold up your upper eyelid to prevent you from blinking. Hold this tight as it will reflexively try to shut . Use the third finger on the hand in which you have the contact lens to hold down your lower eyelid. Once again hold this tight.
Look up. Place the contact lens onto the white of your eye. Look down. Remove your fingers and close your eye momentarily.
Your contact lens should have slipped into place.
Repeat the same method on your other eye.
HINT: Starting with the Right Eye every time you do this will help to reduce the possibilities of you getting your lenses mixed up.
Taking out your contact lenses
Before you take out your contact lenses always ensure that you wash your hands with soap, rinse them thoroughly and dry them with a clean towel.Pull down your lower eyelid with your third finger. Hold this down tightly as it will reflexively try to shut. With your lower eyelid pulled down, place your fore finger on the bottom edge of your lens and slide it down to the white part of your eye.
Squeeze the contact lens gently between your finger and your thumb and remove the contact lens from your eye.
HINT: Starting with the Right Eye every time you do this will help to reduce the possibilities of you getting your lenses mixed up.
Putting on your contact lenses can be compared to riding a bike. At first it may seem difficult but practice makes perfect and within a few days or weeks you will be running through it.
Putting on your contact lenses can be compared to riding a bike. At first it may seem difficult but practice makes perfect and within a few days or weeks you will be running through it.
Cleaning and Storing contact lenses
Before you take out your contact lenses always ensure that you wash your hands with soap, rinse them thoroughly and dry them with a clean towel.Fill your clean contact lens case just below the rim with your contact lens solution.
Remove your contact lens from your eye. Place the contact lens in the palm of your hand. Apply a few drops of your contact lens solution to each side of the contact lens and gently rub for 10secsonds on each side.
Thoroughly rinse each side of the lens for 5 seconds, with fresh solution.
Place cleaned lens in the case and soak according to the time recommended by your specifc products.
Attention: If you purchase a peroxide disinfecting system, the above method does not apply and you would have to strictly adhere to suppliers' instructions.
Warning: NEVER use tap water to clean or store your contact lenses.
