Tips for wearing contact lenses?

Question

Hi I tried contacts a few years ago but gave up cos of itchy eyes due to hayfever. I've just got some more (daily disposables) and I'm gonna try again. I'm ok at getting them in and out but would appreciate any tips! Sometimes I get air bubbles when I'm putting them in, and also I find it really hard to put in the 2nd lens (usually takes me 3 tries instead of 1 for the 1st lens).

Answer 1

Before you put the lense in your eye, give it a little rinse with your saline solution, this should stop the air bubbles! Also, this sounds daft, but put the troublesome lense in first next time! It's some sort of daft psycological thing that happens and prevents it going in first time!!! Good luck it should work!!

Answer 2

I've been wearing for 30 years.  (I think my first contacts were chiseled out of stone...)  Anyhow, make sure your hands are clean when you put them in because anything on your hands, and that includes lint from tissue, is going to stick to the contact and end up in your eye.

Always have a little bottle of saline drops with you, especially this time of year.  Nothing worse than dry eyes with contact lenses stuck to your eyeballs like wallpaper.

On bad pollen days, or when things are just dry, put a drop of saline in the lens while it's still on your finger, then stick it to your eye.  Soothing, and no bubbles!

Get some awesomely expensive and wonderful sunglasses, because that's why we all wear contacts in the summer, right?

Answer 3

close your eye lid and gently rub over it with the flat of your finger this usually runs out the air bubbles :D and it works for me!