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Since improper contact lens use is a big risk factor for Acanthamoeba keratitis, its key to make sure youre not letting tap water touch anything having to do with your lenses, including your case. 4. You dont buy a new contact lens case every three months. Close Alert Close 7 Dangerous Mistakes Youre Making With Your Contact Lens Case Fitness Food Health Love Beauty Culture More Chevron Search Search Fitness Workouts Shape Up Running Yoga Food Healthy Eating Nutrition Weight Loss Recipes Cooking Health Mental Health Sexual Reproductive Health Pregnancy Motherhood Sleep Love Sex Relationships Weddings Single Life Breakups Beauty Makeup Hair Fashion Nails Skin Culture Career Money Travel Entertainment Technology Family Sports Politics Health July 25, 2018 Related Condition Centers Dry Eye 7 Dangerous Mistakes Youre Making With Your Contact Lens Case Quit these habits for the sake of your eyes. Just roll with it.) Your contacts would naturally take the starring role of quarterback. Your contact lens case, on the other hand, would be more like the water person: a crucial part of the whole operation that sometimes gets unfairly overlooked. Proper use of everything related to your contact lensesincluding the caseis essential for good eye health. Using contact lenses already puts you at an increased risk of issues such as dry eye, according to the Mayo Clinic. Dry eye happens when your eyes either dont produce enough tears or the tears they do pump out arent up to moisturizing par, and its symptoms are the definition of not fun, including dryness (duh), stinging, burning, pain, and more. On top of the elevated dry eye risk that comes with wearing contacts, failing to clean, store, and otherwise handle your contact lens case as you should can set you up for additional problems, like various infections, Vivian Shibayama, O.D., an optometrist at UCLA Health, tells SELF. To help you avoid this, here are contact lens case mistakes you might not even realize youre making that could compromise your eye health. You dont wash your hands before touching your contact lens case. If you want a gold medal for how you use your contacts, youve got to keep anything related to your lenses as clean as possible. Thats why its so important to wash your hands with soap and water before handling your contact lens case, Alisha Fleming, O.D., an optometrist at Penn Medicine, tells SELF. If you dont wash your hands before you touch your case, you could deposit microorganisms from your hands onto or into it, possibly making it easier for pathogens to get in your eyes and cause irritation or infection, Dr. Fleming says. For example, you could wind up with an issue like pink eye (also called conjunctivitis), which can happen when things like bacteria, viruses, or allergens inflame or infect your conjunctiva, the thin membrane that covers your eyelids and the whites of your eyes, according to the Mayo Clinic. This can lead to all sorts of unwelcome symptoms like redness, itchiness, a strange gritty sensation, discharge, or tearing, the Mayo Clinic explains. Clearly you want to avoid this one at all costs, so be sure to wash your hands before touching your case. Of course, this might not help much if your case itself is grody, which brings us to our next point. If youre being totally honest, does your contact lens case have a solid build-up of unidentifiable gunk on it Or maybe even a light sprinkling of harmless-seeming lint Yeah, thats bad. Your contact lens case is like a little petri dish, Jennifer Fogt, O.D., an associate professor in the College of Optometry at The Ohio State University, tells SELF. Bacteria can get in there and grow, and if youre not cleaning your case regularly, youre just reintroducing that back into your contacts when you put them in the case at night. Theres no official word on how often you should clean your contact lens case, but the American Optometric Association (AOA) suggests that you follow your solution manufacturers guidelines. That means dumping out the old solution, rinsing the case with fresh solution, wiping it down with a clean tissue, then letting it air-dry with the caps off, the AOA says. Whenever you do wash out your case, you use tap water instead of contact lens solution. Always Be In Contact How To Wash SomethingWhen you think of how to wash something, your first instinct might be to splash on some water as step one. Thats usually a good move, but not when it comes to your contact lens case. Advertisement Introducing your contacts to tap water has been linked with an increased risk of developing Acanthamoeba keratitis, a severe corneal infection that can lead to permanent vision loss, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is a scary and very serious infection, Dr. Shibayama says. Acanthamoeba keratitis happens due to a microbe that can hang out in tap water (and distilled water, too), stick to your contacts, and cause an infection. If this happens, you might experience eye pain, redness, blurry vision, the sensation that you have something in your eye, sensitivity to light, and excessive tearing, according to the CDC. Since improper contact lens use is a big risk factor for Acanthamoeba keratitis, its key to make sure youre not letting tap water touch anything having to do with your lenses, including your case. You dont buy a new contact lens case every three months.
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