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A pair of clean contact lens is very important for one’s health of eyes. If you don’t clean your contact lens regularly, it may not only reduce the lifetime of the lens, but also hurt the eyes terribly!

The better you clean the lens, the healthier your eyes will be.

1. You must clean your lens by hand over 30 seconds. That will effectively make your lens cleaner. Studies show that, cleaning by hand can be more effective than any other machine.
2. Change your contact lens every 1 or 2 years. Even if the glasses are of high quality, they will be bad during the 1 or 2 years.
3. Never to keep your contact lens with the physiological saline. It will only make your contact lens worse.
4. Not to use the lenses made by different factories. The chemical reaction may be hurtful for your eyes. And there’s no factory can make sure that its production is totally innoxiously.
5. Wipe off the protein every week. The left protein will becomes harder and then hurt the cornea.
6. Take care of the duration of service. You’d better use out the lotion in 4 months.
7. Not to dip in the lotion for long. After a certain time, the lotion will become the normal water. It is good for the germs’ growth. And you’d better wash the glasses again before you take on.
8. If your eyes turn red or you begin to weep, you must take off the glasses as fast as possible. And you’d better go to visit the doctors with the contact lens. Never delay until it is too late.
9. Change the saving box in time. Wash the box and the basket you place the things about contact lens every day. Don’t place them in the place where is always too wet. And wash them with the hot water.

Take good care of your contact lens, and also take good care of your eyes. Eyes are always said the window of your heart. The beauty eyes may make a person more beautiful in one stranger’s mind.

Recently, I discovered a very strange thing when I went to my friend’s house to discuss with her the detail of traveling. My friend was a fashionable girl; she always tried different kinds of new things before many others. Sometimes, when I talked with her, I came to know many modern products which had just came to the market. Recently, she began to try a new kind of contact lenses.

As is generally known, when the contact lenses were worn for a long period at one time, the eyes may feel uncomfortable. So she often took off the contact lenses after she returned home from the outside. But one thing was very puzzling at least for me; she put the lenses into the medicinal liquid and then put the little box into the storeroom of the refrigerator.

When I asked her about this, she told me much knowledge about how to protect the contact lenses. She said that as it was in the summer, the weather was very comfortable for the birth and living of the different kinds of bacteria in the atmosphere. And the contact lenses were very easily infected by the bacteria actually. Whenever there was some unhealthy thing on the lenses, it might do harm to the eyes.

So she chose to put the contact into the storeroom of the refrigerator, together with the medicinal liquid. As it was not likely to give birth to various kinds of bacteria in the cold atmosphere, this method seemed to be effective.

She also added that when it was time to take the contact lenses out again, we should always try to clean the lenses’ surface carefully. It was not very healthy to put on them directly after taking out them from the refrigerator. The process of killing the bacteria should still take place.

When I heard this, the first thing that came into my mind is that it was sincerely complicated for me. This kind of thing was probably only designed for those like my friend.

I don’t know when the contact lenses start to become a trend, but as far as I know there are a lot of problems they can bring to the ones who wear them.

My friend, Thomas, likes wearing contact lenses. He has quite an abundant collection of them. He tells me that contact lenses make him look nice and handsome, and he has been trying to persuade me to wear them too. However, recently, he has suffered a lot because of the little stuff.

Yesterday morning, he went to work as usual. But on his way he was collided by someone, which made him lose both of the pair of the lenses. Therefore, he went on the wrong bus, went to the wrong place, and was late totally for 2 hours. His boss was just mad at him.

Still yesterday, he had to meet an important customer who was the key deciding whether he had the quality to be promoted or not, but he missed it. They should have the appointment at 2:00 p.m., but when he got to his office at 3:00 p.m., his secretary told my friend that was over.

I felt sorry for him when he told me all the horrible things happened in just one day only resulted by a pair of contact lenses. I really didn’t know what to say except telling him to wear frame eyeglasses, because he could pick up them next time if he collided with someone else.

Poor Thomas reminds me of another friend of mine, Shirly, who loves everything that can make her pretty, including wearing contact lenses. But she, just like Thomas, had an awful day, too. One day in last month, she was going to give a speech for her final examination. Unfortunately, thirty minutes before the speech she lost her light blue pair of contact lenses. She could see the entire world vaguely, including the cards she had prepared for the speech. Afterwards, she told me that she was too nervous to remember a single word of the whole passage which she had worked hard for so much before. She was sad that day all the time when she was together with me because she only got a D from her professors.

I don’t like contact lenses. I think it’s too inconvenient. Besides, it’s rather horrible for me to put something into my eyes. Now, I have known the stories which have happened to my friends. It is clearly for me that I will never wear them. I like the frame eyeglasses. I have a very large collection of them, all kinds and all colors. Everyday I make a change of wearing them according to my mood. That’s interesting for me, and I believe the red pair in my collection which is my favourite just can bring me luck.

Once I have read that the most beautiful flower in the world also has some unknown dangers behind it. It tells us that beautiful things are not the best. This seems true about contact lens.

Saying it is dangerous may be a little exaggerated. However, we have to take notice when we wear contact lenses, otherwise our eyes may pay the price for our carelessness. As a result, we have to be very careful when we pursuing our beauty.

As for contact lenses, the most important point is that we have to do the clean work very carefully. Let me tell you some small tips which can be a great help and lessen our eyes problems. Above of all, we have to use hands to rub lenses when we wash them. The reason is rather simple. Think about that if we just throw our dirty clothes into the washing machine without rubbing them, the dirt and oil on it can not be gotten rid of. So it is the same with washing contact lenses. The study once shows that washing them with hands can be more effective than any other equipment. In addition, we have to use special eye care products and solution for lenses and contact lenses. Don’t ever use tap water or boiling water to wash them. This point also applies to the keeping of lenses. We have to use particular products as well.

Next tip is that we have to change new pair every one or two years. Of course, one year may be better. After being used for a long time, no matter how we wash and keep them, there will little amount of dirty stuff or bacteria on them. Besides, the materials can wear down naturally as well. So it’s time for us to buy a new pair.

At last, we should use the same brand one time. If we change different ones from time to time, our eyes will suffer for different eyeglasses brands’ eye products for lenses are of various kinds.

Though contact lenses have some hidden dangers, we can also use them without worries as long as we do a good job about using, washing and keeping.

—Hey, did you get contacts?
—No.
—Your eyes are black the last time I saw you, and now, they look like golden brown.
—Yeah I know, it’s the…the fluorescent.

Boys and girls, do you still remember those lines between Bella and Edward in the most popular movie Twilight? Yes, in that scene, Edward was trying to get to know something about Bella when she raised this question to him. Unexpected and a little frightened, Edward had to leave her for a moment for the reason that he could not tell Bella the truth that he is a Vampire.

That’s just the charm of a famous movie which you can never imagine how powerful for it to influence people. But I know since the debut of the movie, contact lenses especially colorful ones regained their popularity regardless so many bad comments because many people think contacts could do lots damage to the eyes. It has been estimated that 125 million people use contact lenses now worldwide.

Then, what’s the secret of colorful contact lenses?

Colorful contact lens is the general definition of corneal contact lens with colors in the lenses. As a matter of fact, they were first used to cover the flaws in the eyes of people with eye damages. Then with time went on, they were gradually put in use as the cosmetics of actors and actresses in movies and films and finally they become even popular and gained great popularity in our everyday lives.

Nowadays, colorful contact lenses, with their unique charms, have already conquered lots of people. They no longer confine themselves to the former function of correcting visual acuity, but a hot mean in the cosmetic market of decorating oneself and showing one’s characteristics. It’s really a fashion for young people now to wear some colorful contacts like deep blue, fashion-forward green, fantastic purple, etc.

But take care! Although colorful contacts are quite popular now, we still have to face some existing problems. Because those contacts are plated with colors with net ultra-microstructure, the colors will clog some air holes and block off the exchange of eyes with oxygen and water in the air. As a result, it’s wiser for you to wear those color contacts just as a way to make up!

According to a survey, among the users of contact lenses, 70% are women. It is easy to understand, women like beauty. With a glasses, the beauty discount. So, many women put on contact lenses. Most are for beauty, others for work (also for beauty.)

But according to another survey, the number of bacteria is also higher around these women. Why so? Because of the cosmetic! Foundation, mascara, lip stick, nail polish… so many! When one beautiful girl put on her contact lenses and just forget to close the box and directly begins to dress up, when she finishes all this and finds the unlock contact lens box and close it—then the box of contact lens must have been paste in some cosmetic! And if this same girl feels an itch in one eye and use the hand to rub her eye. Then the cosmetic in the hand must also have paste in the eye! Oh, if this thing keeps happen every morning, there will be something wrong with the girl’s eyes.

So when use the contact lens, the girls must be careful especially when you are dressing up at the same time. Here are some tips for you:

1. When you dress up or remove, pay attention to the eye part.

2. Wash your hands carefully when you are going to put on or take down the contact eyes.

3. Wash the contact lenses carefully; you’d better use the hands. For this the sediment and protein pasted in can be removed. After this the conservation of the lens will be better.

4. Remember wash both sides of the lens.

5. Wash your ands often and don’t rub your eyes.

We all know the health is the most important. So even though your work is busy, take good care of the contact lenses, and develop good habit of using eyes. Done this, beautiful girls, you will own beauty and health in the same time.

Nowadays, more and more people are turning to the contact lenses due to different reasons. Currently, on the market there are many brands of the contact lenses. Theses kinds can be divided into various brands and different types according to the different performances. Since each kind of lenses has different characteristic, the diversification of species and functions brings difficulties to the consumers when choosing the contact lenses. Then which kind of the contact lenses is better?

First of all, when choosing the lenses, we must pay attention to that if the brand has the registration card of the National Food and the Drug Administration. The State Food and the Drug Administration adopt the ISO international standard to carry out the various functions of the lenses. For example the test of the damage to the cornea of the lenses, the test of the grinding process of the lenses, the use of the materials, the test of the water content of the lenses and the permeability, etc. Therefore, general speaking, the quality of the brand is guaranteed.

Secondly, the degree of the lenses, the size, the materials and the using time should also be taken into consideration when choosing the contact lenses. Many people think that the degree of the spectacles and that of the contact lenses are exactly the same. So they often purchase the contact lenses according to the degree of the spectacles. In fact, it’s wrong to do so. As to the same eye, the degree of the contact lenses and that of the spectacles are different. The higher are the degrees, the more obvious is the difference.

And then the size of the contact lenses should be determined according to the size of the black eyeball. If the people’s black eyeballs are big, they should choose the lenses of relatively big size. On the contrary, those whose black eyeballs are small; they’d better turn to those smaller lenses.

Well, there are still a lot of things you need to pay attention to when choosing the contact lenses. Remember that, the contact lenses are different from the eyeglasses with frames and they need more special attention

Since contact lenses were brought to us, it has acquired its great popularity among many people. With it, we are able to see the world clearly; with it, we don’t need to worry about the awful looking only because of a big pair of eyewear on the nose; with it, we can do things more conveniently; with it, we have one more magical way to make our eyes more appealing. However, then there is the most important point: it don’t help to wear contact lenses in the long term and even it can be a hazard. The following is about four tips from the experts.

Firstly, it is likely to increase the degree of myopia thus doing harm to one’s image. It is difficult for the contact lenses to have the exact refraction degree required as a result which the degree of myopia will be unknowingly enhanced as the time passes by. What’s worse, it can make your eyes look dull and grey which has a bad effect on your personal image.

Secondly, it may lead to tiredness and even dry eye syndrome. If you wear contact lenses for long, it will cause fatigue of eyes easily. To be worse, many eye diseases are likely to come to you.

Thirdly, it is the cause of eye allergies. Contact lenses can absorb the protein, lipid and collagen in the tears and leave them on the surface of the lens which is the source of many harmful bacteria. Syndromes such as corneal edema, allergic reaction and so on are just caused by it.

Fourthly, it is a factor of speeding up the aging cornea. Statistics show that if one begins to wear contact lenses at the age twenty, ten years later your corneal endothelial cell density will be the same as a sixty-year-old which makes you unavailable to any eye operation.

Of course there must be a lot of other harm about contact lenses. So, we should really pay more attention to our eyes and be more careful with the contact lenses. Above all, eyes are the paradise of our mind, right?

Recently, a storm of care solution for contact lens was raised constantly, so the topic of how to select care solution for contact lens becomes hot again. For contact lens users, care solution is one of the essential products, but they seem to be lack of necessary knowledge on it. What’s more, due to several reasons, consumers are leaded to an error zone when selecting and using care solution for contact lens. In this way, in their eyes often appear the symptoms of turning dry and red, aching, etc. In order to protect our eyes from these disgusting symptoms, we should remember the tips below:

1. Don’t pay attention merely to one function of the care solution. Some manufacturers boast that in their care solution products for contact lens there are some special functions, so in order to achieve some kind of propagating effect; they have to add some ingredients into the care solution. However, those ingredients may even be unnecessary in cleaning and disinfecting the contact lens. So when selecting care solution, we should look for the products which is mild in protecting eyes and innovative in solving the radical infectious problems.

2. Scientific methods for nursing your contact lens:

Daily nursing should be matched with intensive care. The basic and moisturizing care solution can be used for daily cleaning, while the intensive care solution can be applied in clearing up the lens to the core.

This match is just like the combination of ordinary cleansing milk and facial cleansing mask of special effect. One is for daily use, and the other is for weekly clearing.

You’d better select the nursing product that accompanies lens case so that you can use a brand-new case every time you buy a new bottle of care solution to avoid newly generating bacteria in your old one.

3. Taking notice of the expiry date.

When you select the care solution for contact lens eyewear, take notice of the expiry date of the product. Generally speaking, common care solutions are good for two years. Once the bottle of the solution is unclosed, it has to be used up in three months. So it is crucial to take notice of the expiry date of your care solution. If the product is out of the expiry date or open for too long time, the disinfecting effect will decline and thus it may do harm to your eyes.

In addition, it is important to form good hygiene habits, especially in summer, which include briefly the four points below.

1. Clean your lens case at a fixed interval and renew your case every three months.

2. Renew your care solution if it has been open for three months.

3. Wash your hands every inch and dry them before you take out the lens and wear it

4. Form the habit of washing hands every time after you have touched something dirty; never touch eyes with dirty hands.

More and more people like to wear contact lenses, but many of them do not know the correct way to wear them. It is easy to cause some eyes’ disease. So we should pay more attention to how to use the contact lenses correctly.

The serious degree of eye disease is related to the cleaning degree of contact lens. If you did not do a good job in cleaning and maintenance, dirt will accumulate on the lenses, so it not only reduce the life of the lens, but also will cause irreparable harm to your eyes. So first, we should do the lenses cleaning very well. Contact lenses must be washed by hand over 30 seconds in order to achieve good cleaning effect. Research report says that, using hand to wash lens are more effective than using any machine to remove impurities and sediment. In addition, there is no disinfections effect in clean water or drinking water that can be used to clean contact lenses.

Second, the contact lenses need to be replaced every one to two year, because even under perfect cleaning and maintenance way, there would still be a little residue microorganisms left on the lenses. Even if you do not use regularly, the lens material will naturally become old after using one to two year, at this time the old ones should be discarded to avoid hurting the eyes.

Third, the contact lenses should be washed with normal saline before wearing. Because most of stealth syrup chemicals will easily caused stimulation if you directly wear them, it is better to use saline water to wash lenses first.

Fourth, if you have red eyes, photophobia, tears or other occasions, it is better to take the contact lenses to see the doctor immediately. The cornea of people those who wear contact lenses are usually more fragile, and most of the people are waiting for blurred vision to receive treatment, but at this time their eyesight has already been considerable damage.

Fifth, it is necessary to replace the contact lens cases regularly, and it should be washed every day. In addition, the preservation boxes should be washed by hot water once a week and cleaned by neutral detergent. Do not put the box in the bathroom. Because of the wet, it will become moldy easily.

After reading these, you will use your contact lenses eyewear more comfortable and healthy.

These days, my brother decided to buy a pair of contact lenses, which I dare not use until today. My eyes often have some problems, since I use them too long at a time. His lifestyle is completely different from mine; I use the computer, television, mp4 and some other technological products, more often than him. So he chose a pair of contact lenses and had it checked almost without any efforts.

Many friends of mine have suffered from some kind of serious eyes problems ever since they used this modern product. As we all know, the lenses are put almost on the surface of our eyes, so whenever there is some damage to the lenses, they will do the harm to our eyes, which are very weak in resistance to infection.

Apart from the eyes’ infection, the contact lenses may be polluted in many ways. The first is the pollution from the outside world, especially from the air. When we take off the contact lenses, the careless placing of them may have a high chance of making them polluted easily by the dust and mist from the air, or some other chemical products in our daily life.

Also, our eyes themselves vent some rubbish everyday, if we wear the contact lenses for a long time, the protein or some other secretions may attach to the lenses. The last one is very serious, if we don’t take it carefully, it may do the harm to the eyes easily, that is, the various kinds of bacteria’s damage. The bacteria can come from the air, our hands or just from the objects the lenses attach to everyday.

I told all this to my brother, who seemed to have never suffered from the eyes problems as me. But he still promised to pay special attention to the use of the contact lenses, since it was possible to do some serious harm to our eyes if we don’t care much.

When I chatted with my friends, we came to a conclusion, that was to use a pair of contact lenses was generally very easy, but how to protect it was really a problem. Together with the lenses, I also bought a large bottle of medicinal liquid, which was said to be very important for the lenses’ using length, if it is used properly.

But actually, I didn’t know much about how to protect this kind of new product, so the next time I went to the shop, I asked the seller, who gave me many recommendations about how to protect the contact lenses. Since there’s not a perfect system, the most important thing is to make the system agree with personal habits and physiological system.

There are many kinds of medicinal liquid on the market, but some people may find that not all of them can be really used; some of those medicines will do great harm to the eyes if used improperly. But the most important thing is to check whether the medicinal liquid has been proved by the sanitation department, and also, if the liquid may cause allergy or stimulation to the eyes.

Some other functions of the medicinal liquid can be found on the usage direction part easily, such as the ability of reducing bacteria and getting rid of protein, and some other secretions of the eyes everyday. And some functions can only be found by everyday use of the customers, for example, the real capacity of cleaning, which will make the eyes uncomfortable if it is used wrongly.

Since this is also a kind of product, we should always pay attention to its normal use, like whether it is convenient to clean the contact lenses easily. There are so many brands selling medicinal liquid, so the price is also one’s concern.

Actually, all these are not really complex, since they are all related with personal health, we had better spend enough time on it.

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The contact lenses are becoming more and more popular in this world for the convenience they brought. When people wear them, they do not have to concern about the related problems. However, there are still some people do not set their hearts at rest when wearing contact lenses. They are correct, wearing contact lenses need to care about many things. Since contact lenses are closely attached to the eyeballs, anything that is polluted might harm the eyes. In conclusion, people who have contact lenses should aware the protection of your contact lenses.

As to contact lenses solutions, some of the hydrogen peroxide solution has only one function while some others have all the functions, which are also called as multi-functional hydrogen peroxide solution.

The contact lenses are put in the hydrogen peroxide solution when they are not used. So the maintenance of the lenses depends on the quality of the hydrogen peroxide solution. After you use the contact lenses, you first have to clean them by using your finger gently. Then, the next step is disinfections. Afterwards is the rinse. The last one is conservation. You have to make sure that the contact lenses are wholly immerged in the hydrogen peroxide solution. Your hands have to be clean during the whole process.

While you do not use the hydrogen peroxide solution, do not put them under the sunshine, or the hydrogen peroxide solution will go metamorphosed. And you should remember that the hydrogen peroxide solutions are used for protecting the contact lenses rather than people’s eyes. So do not use them as your eye drop.

Though contact lenses are popular among young people, there are still some kinds of people who cannot wear contact lenses. For example, people with problems like cataract, trachoma, glaucoma and keratitis and many others. That is the reason why you have to check your eyes condition after you enter into the glass shop for the assurance of you can wear the contact lenses. These kinds of people have to use eye drop in their daily lives for improving their eyes condition.

All in all, you have to aware the protencial dangerous situations when you decide to wear contact lenses. Though they can bring you convenience and beauty, they can bring you harm too. It is good for you to change the hydrogen peroxide solution for every several months. If you do not relax about your eyes, you can go for a checkup in the hospital or the glasses shops. I think they can provide you better suggestion.

As we all know, nowadays with the technology of making lenses developing faster and faster and people’s aesthetic judgment higher and higher, the contact lenses are becoming more and more popular among people. Many people are putting their eyeglasses away and turning to the contact lenses. This kind of glasses is different from eyeglasses and people should pay special attention when wearing them. If you put them on in the wrong way, it can do great harm to your eyes. So let me tell you the right way to put on the contact lenses.

1. Before putting on the contact lenses, you need to wash your hands and after cleaning the hands, you should check whether the lens has some abnormal phenomena. Especially confirm that you don’t make wrong of the frontage and back.

2. If the lens clings or folds in your hand, you should sprinkle the fresh salt water on the lens and use your hand to supply them gently. Remember that if the lenses glue together, don’t bump them. So long as being in the salt water for a night, they will restore to the original condition.

3. Put the contact lenses on the right hand’s fingertip and use the middle finger of the left hand to open the upper eyelid gently. Then use the hand that holds the lenses to open the lower lid gently. At this time, the eyeball exposes bigly. And just then paste the lenses lightly in the ocular region of the eyeball. After the lenses bumping into the eyeball, loose the hand so long as looking downward. Through this way the lenses can arrive the right place.

4. If you don’t feel well after wearing the contact lenses, you can wink your eyes to let the lenses get to the right place and at the same time maintain the balance of your eyes.

Only after learning how to wear the contact lenses correctly, they can help you see things clearly and at the same time help you look more charming and beautiful.

Contact Lens Safety: Prescription Required

Just like their corrective counterparts, decorative contacts–sometimes called plano, zero-powered or non-corrective lenses–are regulated by FDA.

“What troubles us is when they are bought and used without a valid prescription, without the involvement of a qualified eye care professional, or without appropriate follow-up care,” says Saviola.

“This can lead to significant risks of eye injuries, including blindness.”

FDA is aware that consumers without valid prescriptions have bought decorative contact lenses from beauty salons, record stores, video stores, flea markets, convenience stores, beach shops and the Internet.

Recent legislation has made it illegal to market decorative contact lenses as over-the-counter products.

Unauthorized contact lenses of all types present risks to the eye that include corneal ulcers, corneal abrasion, vision impairment, and blindness.

If you want decorative contacts:

Get an eye exam from a licensed eye care professional, even if you feel your vision is perfect.

Get a valid prescription that includes the brand and lens dimensions.

Buy the lenses from an eye care professional or from a vendor who requires that  you provide prescription information for the lenses.

Follow directions for cleaning, disinfecting, and wearing the lenses, and visit your eye care professional for follow-up eye exams.

Contact Lens Safety: Decorative Contact Lenses

Every year, the approach of Halloween heightens fears at FDA that consumers will harm their eyes with unapproved decorative contact lenses.?

These are lenses that some people use to temporarily change their eye color or to make their eyes look weird–perhaps giving them an “eye-of-the-tiger” look.

“Although unauthorized use of decorative contact lenses is a concern year-round, Halloween is the time when people may be inclined to use them, perhaps as costume accessories,” says Saviola.

The problem is not that people use decorative, non-corrective lenses. It’s that many go about it the wrong way, which is dangerous.