Tips For Successful Contact Lens Wear and Care
In order to help ensure crisp, clear vision, eye health and maximum lens wearing comfort, consider these important tips for successful lens wear and care. These tips will help guide you, but always follow the advice of your eye care professional and read the contact lens manufacturers' instructions.
Always:
- Wash your hands with a mild soap and dry them with a lint-free towel before touching your lenses.
- Clean, rinse and disinfect your lenses each time you remove them. Follow your eye care professional’s instructions.
- Handle the same lens first to avoid confusing the right and left lenses.
- Keep all solution bottles closed when not in use.
- Clean your lens case daily and let air dry. Replace your lens cases every month.
- Use solution before expiration date marked on bottle, or discard.
- Remove contacts before you go swimming.
- Keep ReNu® MultiPlus Lubricating and Rewetting Drops with you at all times.
- Carry your contact lens care along with a bottle of multi-purpose solution to have a safe place to store your lenses.
- Schedule regular appointments with your eye care professional as he/she recommends.
Never:
- Allow soaps, cosmetics or other substances to come into contact with your lenses.
- Touch the tip of a lens care solution bottle to any surface, including your finger or the contact lens.
- Re-use any lens care solution.
- Use eye drops or solutions not intended for use with contact lenses.
- Wear your contact lenses in the presence of harmful or irritating vapors or fumes.
- Wear lenses for more than the prescribed time.
- Swap contact lenses with anyone.
- Apply hairspray after putting your contact lenses on.
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