Tips For Contacts

CLEANING TIPS FOR RGP WEARERS

If your lenses continue to fog when you put them on try these steps

1. Wash your hands immediately before handling lenses with non-cream dish soap. Usually any dish soap that has color is good.
2. Rinse your hands off until they are "squeaky" clean.
3. Rinse the lens off in water and wash it with the same soap, rubbing lightly between your fingers. Try to create some lather.
4. Rinse the lenses off while continually, lightly rubbing them under water until they feel "squeaky" clean.
5. Take 5-10 drops of the conditioning solution and rub the solution onto the lenses for about 20 seconds.
6. Now place the lens in your eye, or run it under water for 1-2 seconds before placing it into the eye.
7. If it still fogs, repeat all the steps except rubbing in more conditioning solution.
8. If it still fogs, you may have something on it and need to bring the lens in to be professionally polished.

TIPS ON WHY YOUR SOFT LENSES TEAR

If your contact lens tears in the middle when you take it out of the case or blister pack, chances are you damaged the lens with your fingernail when you took it out. It might be just a partial tear and will not fully tear for a few days.

• Spill the solution out of the case, and very gently grab the edge of the lens. Even very slight pressure from your fingernails can tear a lens. Lenses can be stretched but are easily penetrated by any perpendicular object, almost like a knife going through soft butter.

If your lenses tear on the edge, chances are you are getting the lenses caught in the case when closing.

• Put the lens in the case first, and then fill the case until the lens is submerged. Don't fill the case up to the top.

Of course, there is always the possibility that the lens is from a bad batch. If you are having problems, please call the office; we will do whatever it takes to remedy the problem.