Eye & Contact Lens Factsheets
HYGIENE REGIME
CLEANING AND DISINFECTION
The hygiene regime for your pariticular
lens form can be found at the back of this booklet.
No Contact Lenses should EVER he placed upon the
eyes unless absolutely clean and disinfected.
Regardless of whether we wear
glasses, Contact Lenses or nothing, dangerous
bacteria exist naturally in the environment and
these can, given the right conditions, severely
damage the eye. Wearing Contact Lenses places
you at no greater risk assuming that you always
adhere to all sensible precautions regarding cleaning
and disinfecting your lenses and attend to all
the aftercare advised.
CLEANING
- removes all the debris from
the lenses. There are essentially two sources
of lens contamination. Firstly natural secretions
of the eye, the tears and eyelids, and secondly,
foreign contaminants which may get onto the lenses.
From the tears deposits of protein, calcium or
lipids can accumulate. From the every day environment
virtually anything can get on, and into the lenses,
the most common being make-up, pollution from
cigarette smoke, traffic fumes, aerosol sprays
and also oils from the skin or dirt from the hands
etc.
DISINFECTION
- is the process of killing all
harmful bacteria and germs which can get onto
or into the lens material during the normal course
of wear and disinfection MUST be carried out every
night on lens removal.
IT
IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
CLEANING AND DISINFECTION.
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