How to wear lenses: tips for beginners

Contact lenses are perhaps the most remarkable means of correcting vision without surgery. Dressing on the front surface of the eye, they tightly fit it and take its shape. Before the usual glasses contact lenses have a lot of undeniable advantages: they do not limit the field of view, restore the ability to binocular vision, increase its sharpness and protect the eye with injuries. In order to wear comfortable contact lenses and not lead to visual fatigue, reduced visual performance and visual impairment, it is important to know how to properly wear lenses and how to care for them.

Contact lenses require very careful care, and a clear observance of the rules that an ophthalmologist will tell you when you prescribe a prescription for lenses. In addition to how to wear and remove the lens, you can always read the instructions to the lens and solution for them. Regular, proper care of lenses and timely replacement of them - a guarantee of comfortable wearing of lenses without harm to health.

Currently, in ophthalmic rooms and salons, there are classes for beginners, where they teach the use of lenses. The first time to dress them you will help a doctor or nurse, as well as tell in detail how to wear the lenses at home. The first few days dressing the lenses will be quite a challenge, since the person's eye is so arranged that, if hit into it, something starts to close spontaneously, preventing you from putting the lens in place. Wearing lenses in the first days can also cause some inconvenience, one needs some time to get used to, and others do not experience any discomfort and may even forget that the lenses need to be removed in the evening.

However, a few days will pass, and you and your eyes will get used to this innovation, how to dress the lenses and how to remove them you will remember the tooth without any hints. And in a couple of months, this process will simply be brought to automatism and become a habitual matter.

The installation and wearing of contact lenses implies strict adherence to a number of rules:

1. Before you wear the lens, you should wash your hands with soap and dry them with a towel that does not leave fibers on your hands.
2. We take out the container for storage of contact lenses and open it. Typically, the caps of the container, except for the designations R - the right eye and L - the left eye, differ in color. So, the caps of the container with the designation R are blue or green.
3. We take the lens from the container with a special tweezers with silicone tips and place it on the tip of the index finger. Check if it is turned inside out - in form it should resemble a bowl with even edges. Then, with the middle finger of the other hand, raise the upper eyelid, and the index finger - remove the lower eyelid.
4. We install the lens in the lower sector of the eyeball while looking up. Then gently lower the eyelid and blink 3-4 times, while the lens will be in place and you should not feel any discomfort.

It is recommended that you wear the lenses at the table to make it easier to find it if you drop it. Before you put on or remove the lens, check the contents of the container's cells, if the liquid is cloudy and contains particles of dust or dirt, be sure to change it and wash the lens.

Even if the eyesight of both eyes is equally never confused and do not change lenses, in order to avoid confusion, always start to take off and dress the lenses from the same eye, for example right. Try not to touch the inner surface of the lens, if this happens - always flush the lens. For lenses to last longer and maintain their transparency, use only the recommended care products and never rinse the lens with plain water. If the lens is loose after removal, do not try to separate it at all - you can damage it. Just put it in a container of liquid.