How often should I clean and disinfect my contact lenses?
There's different ways to clean and disinfect the lense. There's a variety of different solutions that can do it, and the important thing here is to follow your eye doctor's recommendation. Most people get in trouble, by trouble I mean serious eye infections, because they're not following their doctor's recommendation. So there's not one solution that's necessarily better than another or one product better than another, but the important thing is how you use the products. And there's a couple tips that can really keep you out of trouble. One is, if you have a lense case with solution in it, you should dump that solution out every day and put fresh solution in it every night. Even though it's a litte more expensive to change it every day it reduces your risk of an eye infection. During the day leave your case open and let the wells dry out. Because drying out the case kills any germs that were left in the case from the night before. Finally, when you take your lens out of your eye, don't skip the cleaning step. The cleaning step involves putting a liquid on the lense and rubbing it between your fingers. That helps take off a lot of buildup, of protein, other materials and bacteria. Getting rid of that material helps the disinfection work better. So the bottom line is, follor your doctor's instructions and stay out of trouble.
