Do:
- Always wash and thoroughly dry your hands before handling contact lenses.
- Carefully and regularly clean contact lenses as directed by your optometrist. If
recommended, rub the contact lenses with your fingers and rinse them
thoroughly before soaking the lenses overnight in multipurpose solution
that completely covers each lens.
- Store lenses in the proper lens storage case.
- Use only fresh solution to clean and store contact lenses.
- Always follow the recommended contact lens replacement schedule
prescribed by your optometrist.
- Remove contact lenses before swimming or entering a hot tub.
- See your optometrist for your regularly scheduled contact lens and eye
examination.
Don't:
- Sleep in contact lenses.
- Share lenses with others.
- Insert contact lens if the eyes are red, painful, or irritated.
- Use tap water to wash or store contact lenses or lens cases.
- Use cream soaps. They can leave a film on your hands that can transfer to the lenses.
- Use homemade saline solutions.
- Put contact lenses in the mouth or moisten them with saliva.
- Use products not recommended by your optometrist to clean and disinfect the lenses.