Eye care guidelines
Important
Your eyesight is a capital you have to maintain! Contact lenses are more and more comfortable and easy to use but you need to respect elementary rules and be careful about hygiene.
Your eye care is our priority. You’ll find some important recommendations below. However you must be aware of the fact that the following information is basic and should not keep you consulting an ophthalmologist.
If you wear contact lenses, you must consult a specialist regularly! You should consult at least once a year and everytime something unusual occurs (vision trouble, eye trouble, discomfort, modification of eye aspect).
Caution, only a regular consultation with a specialist will enable you to:
- adapt your contact lenses and correction function of the evolution of your eyesight
- detect some deficiencies or eye illness
- get the best comfort and security for your eyesight during your life
DO NOT try to change the model, the brand, and the characteristics of your contact lenses by yourself!
Some essential hygienic rules
- Wash and dry your hands carefully before manipulating your contact lenses
- Only use care solutions recommended for each type of contact lenses and read use advice carefully
- Change the care solution every day in your lenses box
- Don't touch the top of the solution bottle with your fingers or your contact lenses
- Don't use tap water to clean your lenses
- Keep your lenses box in a perfectly clean place and replace it regularly (every 2 months)
- Avoid windy, smoky, dusty, toxic atmospheres and aerosol cans. If there are small specks in your eyes, if you feel irritation, a watering of the eyes, redness or if you notice eye trouble, remove immediately your contact lenses, rinse your eyes out abundantly and clean your contact lenses with an adapted care solution. Then consult an ophthalmologist.
Living with contact lenses
- If your lens sticks to your eye when you try to remove it, apply some artificial tear drop (available in pharmacies)
- Change contact lenses according to recommended periodicity, whether lenses are worn regularly or not.
- Don't wear your lenses more than the period recommended by your ophthalmologist. Don't use lenses after expiration date mentioned on the package.
- Don't let your lenses get dry, don't wear spoiled lenses.
- If you're an occasional lens user, be careful that the easy care solution you use preserves your lenses properly and change it regularly.
- Always keep eyeglasses with you, as well as extra lenses and a case, in case you'd have to remove your lenses during the day.
- Ask for the mention "contact lenses user" to be added on your driver's license
- Tip: blink frequently to further humidification of your contact lenses
- Have your eyes and your sight checked at least once a year by your ophthalmologist. Only wear the lenses he prescribed and follow his advice and prescription exactly.
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