What to do if you don't have contact lens care solution

Contact lens care solution is a must-have item for people who wear contact lenses at home and on the go. Because its main function is to disinfect and sterilize contact lenses and keep them moist and breathable. The care solution has many benefits, but it should be noted that it needs to be used up within three months after opening. In daily life, we sometimes forget to bring care solution when we go out. What should we do at this time?

If you forget to bring the care solution, try to buy a small bottle if you can, to solve the urgent problem.

If it is inconvenient to buy, you can find a small container, soak it in boiling water for 30 minutes to disinfect it, then boil the water and then cool it down. The cooled water can temporarily replace the care solution. Of course, this is a very helpless move. Never use this method to replace contact lens solution for a long time.

The method of soaking in pure water can only replenish moisture to the lenses in time to prevent them from drying and hardening, but it cannot sterilize, disinfect, or remove protein. Therefore, before the next use, be sure to clean the lenses thoroughly with care solution and hydrogen peroxide to avoid the harm of contact lenses.

Generally speaking, it is best to wear care solution, otherwise it may cause eye infection. In this case, don't wear contact lenses for the time being. Contact lenses, or contact lenses, are lenses that are worn on the cornea of ​​the eye to correct vision or protect the eyes. It includes both hard and soft types. Contact lenses not only bring great improvement in appearance and convenience to patients with refractive errors such as myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, etc., but also provide a wide field of vision and realistic vision. In addition, they also play a special role in controlling the development of myopia and astigmatism in adolescents and treating special eye diseases.

Wearing contact lenses for a long time can cause great damage to the cornea. In fact, the eyes are very sensitive and easy to be infected. Contact lens care solution has the functions of disinfection, cleaning, protein removal and moisturizing. If there is no care solution, the secretions on the contact lenses contain protein that can easily breed bacteria and infect the cornea. In severe cases, the cornea may even become inflamed.

When you are about to go to bed but have no contact lens solution, you should find a clean container, boil tap water, let it cool completely, remove your contact lenses and store them in the cooled boiled water. Remember not to sleep with contact lenses on. Sleeping with contact lenses in your eyes can cause bacteria to grow, which can have a serious impact on your eyes.

Although cold boiled water may be sterile, the container holding boiled water may not be free of bacteria. Even if the container is washed with hot water, because there are bacteria everywhere in the air, many bacteria can easily enter the water overnight. Although most bacteria are harmless to the human body, if there are pathogenic bacteria in it, the consequences will be disastrous. So it is best to buy a care solution the next day, clean the contact lenses with the care solution, and then soak the contact lenses in the care solution for at least twelve hours.

Eyes are the windows to the soul and need careful care. Wearing contact lenses itself causes damage to the eyes, so you must not be careless when cleaning and caring for contact lenses.