Many people, especially girls, choose wear contact lenses for the purpose of pursuing beauty. However, contact lenses have direct contact with our eyeball, so improper use of contact lenses will exert serious influence on our eyes. In fact, there are a variety of contact lenses available on the market. It is said that the less time we wear contact lenses, the less damage your eyes suffer.
It is reported that wearing contact lenses for a very long time will damage eye conjunctiva. Many little particles will appear inside conjunctiva. What’s worse, some unqualified contact lenses will decrease endothelial cells of conjunctiva that can’t regenerate. Besides, wearing contact lenses will make cornea lack of oxygen. In the normal situation cornea directly absorbs oxygen to breathe, while contact lenses prevent cornea from breathing oxygen. As a result, blood vessel will dilate or new blood vessel occurs and leads to blood steak.
Therefore, ophthalmologists suggest that people should prepare a pair of glasses as an alternative for contact lenses. You can wear contact lenses when you go outside. When you get off work, or stay at home, you’d better wear glasses. In addition, you must take off and clean contact lenses everyday. Don’t wear them overnight or your eyes are likely to swell or ache. In term of maintaining contact lenses, you should keep the following points in mind. First, don’t soak contact lenses with solutions for a long time. If so, solutions are likely to lose function of disinfecting. You should store contact lenses with new solutions after two days. Second, don’t blend solutions with others that are produced by different manufactures. Blending different solutions may lead to chemical reaction and then damage lenses.
So it is important to take contact lenses seriously because it can help you and cause damage to your eyes as well. You’d better pay attention to use contact lenses and maintain them.