Taking care of your contact lenses
Take better care of your contact lenses with these tips

Follow these guidelines for good contact lens care to extend the life of your contact lenses, and protect the safety and health of your eyes.
1. You should never wear another person's contact lenses, especially if they have been worn before. You run the risk of spreading infection or particles from someone else’s eyes to yours when you share contacts.
2. Since wearing contact lenses may cause your eyes to become more sensitive to sunlight, add sunglasses with UV protection or consider a wide-brimmed hat when out in the sun.
3. Use a rewetting solution or plain saline solution to keep your eyes rewetted.
4. Never sleep with your contact lenses in your eyes unless you are prescribed "Extended Wear" contacts! Tears cannot carry healthy amounts of oxygen to the eye, like during the waking hours when eyes are shut, and as a result, your contact lenses will become dry and stick to your eyes. Make sure to put eye drops in your eyes and wait a few minutes before trying to remove your contact lenses if you accidentally do fall asleep with your contact lenses in.
5. Visit your doctor every year to recheck your contact lens prescription.
6. You must go to your eye doctor immediately if you have any degree of sudden vision loss, light flashes, eye pain, infection, swelling, blurred vision, unusual redness, or irritation.
7. When first starting to wear contact lenses, you may be concerned about accidentally wearing them inside out. Wearing them inside out causes no damage to your eye, although the sensation can be uncomfortable. To avoid this, place your contact lens on the tip of your finger so that it is forming a cup and look at the contact lens from the side. If the cup looks like it is flaring out at the top and has a lip, your contact lens is inside out. If it looks like the letter "U", the contact lens is right side out.
8. Ask your eye doctor if he or she has a chart that is handed out to patients if you think you will have trouble remembering when to change your contact lenses,. If your doctor does not have one, you may want to consider creating one on your own.
9. Put on your contact lenses before applying cosmetics to avoid contaminating your contact lens. Be sure that you wash and dry your hands when removing makeup.
10. Never let the tip of solution bottles touch other surfaces, as the solution can become contaminated.
11. Before handling your contact lenses or before touching your eyes always wash your hands with warm water and soap. Residue from lotions, soaps, or chemicals may stick to the contact lens, causing irritation, pain, or blurred vision when they are in your eyes.
12. Only wear your contact lenses for the time recommended.