Here's Why You Should Not Use Just Any Solution to Treat Your Contact

Common Symptoms of Eye Infection

When you use the wrong type of lens care solution, it hampers the effectiveness of both the contact lens and the purpose of lens cleaning. On the other hand, failure to take regular care of your contact lenses may lead to severe infections. Some of the common symptoms of eye infection ⁴ include:

1. Eye irritation
2. Red eyes
3. Pain in the eyes
4. Increased sensitivity to light
5. Abrupt blurry vision
6. Unusual watery eyes or discharge

Why Should You Use a Recommended Lens Care Solution to Clean Your Contacts?

There are different types of contact lenses available nowadays to suit a range of vision correction requirements. Contact lenses require regular cleaning and disinfection with a suitable lens care solution to ensure that they remain free of any contaminants. For cleaning purposes, choosing the right lens solution is important to make sure you do not develop any eye-related problems or infections.

One of the most common complications that can arise out of improper use of solutions on your contact lenses is Keratitis – which can be caused due to multiple factors ⁵. However, a specific type of Keratitis, known as microbial Keratitis, occurs due to the accumulation of germs in the cornea. ⁵

These germs may include viruses, bacteria, or even parasites such as amoebae that can disperse into the eyes when you don’t take care of lenses with good solution or use them for long hours including during closed eyes. or forget to clean the contact lenses thoroughly.

Microbial Keratitis ⁵ is a type of eye infection which in some severe cases may result in blindness or require a corneal transplant. Some common types of Microbial Keratitis:

1. Bacterial Keratiti
2. Fungal Keratitis
3. Parasitic/Amoebic Keratitis
4. Viral Keratitis

How to Ensure Proper Contact Lenses Maintenance: Cleaning and Disinfection?

One of the easiest ways to ensure that you have clean contact lenses every time is to opt for daily disposable contact lenses. Although, considering you wear your contact lenses regularly, opting for daily disposable contact lenses might be a bit costlier as you would require a fresh daily disposable pair every day. However, if you choose monthly disposable contact lenses, bi-weekly contact lenses, or annual contact lenses, it is advisable that you first consult your optometrist to understand how to clean and disinfect them after each use.

All types of contact lenses require a unique maintenance and care regime. After a thorough eye check-up, your optometrist may advise you on the most suitable types of contact lenses for your eyes, a corrective prescription, and instructions for contact lenses care.

Common types of contact lenses include:

• Soft Lenses (both silicone hydrogel and hydrogel lenses)
• HyperGel daily disposable Lenses

What Are Multi-Purpose Contact Lens Solutions?

Multi-purpose contact lens solutions ⁶ are created to disinfect, rinse, clean and store your contact lenses – all in one.

To clean your contact lenses with Multi-Purpose Solution:

1. After wearing contact lenses for a full day, remove your contact lenses after washing hand with soap and water
2. Put few drops of lens care multipurpose solution on you contact lenses
3. Rub the solution on your contact lenses gently to remove any dirt or dust
4. Rinse the contact lenses with fresh lens care multi-purpose solution
5. Place your clean contact lenses in the lens case filled with fresh solution to store it overnight
6. While you wear lenses in morning ensure you clean the storage case with the solution and wipe it with a clean tissue and air dry them before using them again in evening.

A lens care multipurpose solution product such as our Bausch+Lomb Biotrue Multi-Purpose Solution makes it easier for you to ensure that your contact lenses are always clean and disinfected so that your eyes stay healthy and free of any irritation or infection.

Some of the features of our Bausch+Lomb Biotrue Multi-Purpose Solution are:

1. Advanced lens care solution that is inspired by the biology of your eyes
2. Developed based on intensive research to enable comprehensive lens care
3. Helps in conditioning, cleaning, rinsing, disinfecting, removing protein and for storing soft contact lenses (both hydrogel and silicone hydrogel soft contact lenses)

Choose the Best Contact Lenses Solution

Sensitive eyes can quickly develop irritation or infections. Thus, it would help if you found the right lens care solution for your contact lenses. You need to clean and disinfect your contact lenses daily, as recommended by your optometrist. Doing this will not only prevent any build-up of protein or other contaminants in the lenses but also help maintain moisture and flexibility of the lenses.

Before you start using any types of contact lenses solution, you need to understand the cleaning and maintenance routine thoroughly. It is pretty simple as you have to follow the cleaning instructions given by optometrist and be mindful of storing your contacts properly.

For the level of comfort and vision accuracy that contact lenses provide, a little commitment towards its care and maintenance seems reasonable. Contact Lens Cleaning Solutions from Bausch + Lomb are useful for cleaning, disinfecting, and storing your contact lenses. At the same time, our collection of lens care solutions is approved for use with all types of soft contact lenses, including silicone hydrogels. So, be careful while choosing a lens care solution to keep your contact lenses and your eyes healthy!

Sources:
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/protect-your-eyes.html
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/care-systems.html
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/care-systems.html
[4] https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/contact-lens-related-eye-infections
[5] https://www.cdc.gov/contactlenses/germs-infections.html#one
[6] https://www.aao.org/eye-health/glasses-contacts/contact-lens-cleaning-solution-basics