Regular visit to the ophthalmologist is important for your eyes and your health in general. Visiting ophthalmogist regulary is the most important thing for noticing any problems related to your eyes and to keep good vision and healthy eyes. Remember, some eye disorders are often unable to notice for a long time before the heavier symptoms occur. Missed eye examination is also a missed opportunity to check your possible health problems, as diabetes and high blood pressure, which often show their first signs in the eyes. Regular eye testings can lead to noticing those signs before irreversibly damaging your eyes and your health.

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Did you know that regular cleaning and washing contact lenses can remove to 90% of the bacterials on them. 

The best time for cleaning and desinfection of soft contact lenses is right after taking them off. Traditionally it is done in a way that you put your lens on the dry palm of one hand and drop a few drops of your solution for keeping contact lenses. Use a little finger to rub it softly on the front and the back side of each lens. Carefully wash out with the solution for attendance and put the lenses into their boxes. Fill each chamber with the solution, close the top covers and leave the lens dipped until the moment you have to exchange the solution for keeping according to the instructions on the solution for attendance. Hygine of the chambers for keeping lenses is a thing that is often being neglected while taking care of the lenses. While putting the lenses into the boxes, the boxes have to be empty and without solution, washed with fresh desinfective solution and dryed on the air- this sholud be done every day. Dry box is also important because microbes cannot multiplicate in dry conditions. Boxes should often be replaced, once a month would be ideal. Ophthalmologist will give you further instructions about the importance of hoding up to the regular cleaning treatment. In case you adhere to the doctors instructions, the result will be comfort and clear contact lenses permenantly.

Did you know that all solutions for contact lenses cannot be used for all contact lenses? Solutions for contact lenses are different, as the contact lenses are different. Multi-purpose solutions are suitable way of taking care of the lenses because this solutions can be used for cleaning, desinfection and washing lenses. Althought multi-purpose solutions can be used for most of the contact lenses, there are still some exceptions that depend on different ingrediants in the solution and their compability with the contact lens material. Be sure to always talk to the ophthalmolgist and use only the solutions recommended by your doctor. Also, adhere to the instructions wrtitten on the product label.
Here are some advices:

• Don't touch the top of the open bottle of the solution, because in that way you could infect it .

• Close the bottle right after using it.

• Always ask for the doctors's advice before you decide to use other solutions.

• Check the expiration date. Never use the solutions after their expiration date passed.

Wearing and the schedule of lens replacement are of big importance for eye health. Next thing important is adhering to the instructions you were given by your ophthalmologist related to care and preserving your lenses:

• Washing hands is the first step before handling with contact lenses, no matter is it taking them off, putting them on or cleaning. If you don't wash your hands, the beds from them can be transffered to the lens and that includes bacterials and other microorganisms.

• Non-aromatic antibacterial liquid soaps are better than firm soaps which are easier to infect.

• Suds should be carefully washed from the hands before handling with lenses in order to avoid pollution.

• Hands should always be dryed with a towel that doesn't leave traces on the hands, in order to prevent the transition of the little fabric pieces to the lens. 

• All contact lenses, that are worn more than once, should be cleaned and desinfected before putting into the eye again. The reason is that pathogenic sprouts could cause complications and that proteins, calcium and lipids that are normally in the tears can be accumulated on the surface of the contact lenses. That decreses the comfort of wearing and makes the eyes sensitive to infections.

The replacement of the contact lenses gives more than perfect sense of new lenses on your eyes. It is also necessary for your eye health. It may seem illogical to throw away lenses while your vision and comfort in wearing are satifactiory. But vision problems often don't show early symptoms and vision can significantly get worse without even noticing, in case it happens gradually.

In order to avoid complications, lenses should be thrown away before their characteristics change. If you adhere the replacement schedule, that it was prescripted by your doctor, you will stop any further problems. More often changing lenses with a new pair is healthier for your eyes. But sometimes it is hard to remember when it is the right time to change your lenses. Write down a date of lens replacement on your calendar. If you are using electronic calendar, programme it in a way that it reminds you to change your lenses. It is also a good way to keep a visual reminder in your surrounding, that will remind you every day to put on and take off lenses. For example, keep a note near your toothbrush on a mirror in the bathroom so you could remember when it is the right time for new pair of lenses. And remember: If you're not sure, always take a new fresh pair of lenses. Contact lenses are medical aids and you should treat them as one. As all medical aids, not following the instructions increases the danger for health.

• Contact lenses for daily wearing can never be weared during night without the consent of the ophthalmologist. If you do that anyway, you will lower the oxygen in your eyes and the possibilty to be immune to the infection.

• Always change your lenses as you ophthalmologist ordered you. In case you wear them too long without replacement, that can cause beads what will lead to the eye irritation or decreased vision. Remember, the more often you change your lenses the more healthier your eyes stay.

Prolonged wear of the contact lenses means that they can be weared during night and all the way to the end of the time recommended by ophthalmologist. Some of those lenses are thrown away while replacing them. Others are cleaned, desinfected and reused before they are replaced. You should always adhere to the instructions given by your doctor. Did you know that exchanging contact lenses with other persons is dangerous and presents great danger for safety and health of your eyes? Contact lenses are adjusted to individual eyes and should never be exchanged with anybody else.

All lenses can be divided into 2 main categories depending on the fact could they or couldn't they be weared over night. Contact lenses for daily use are weared during day and should be taken off every time before going to bed. After a certain period they are tossed away or replaced with a new pair. It is important to know that shortening the cycle of replacement leads to significant decrese of complications with contact lenses. Remember a simple rule: the more often you change your contact lenses, the more uncommon is to have any complications. Some contact lenses for daily use are tossed away daily, while others are replaced after one or two weeks or even longer period.  If those lenses are used again, they should be cleaned and desinfected before using them again. If you don't want to clean your lenses every day or you are alergic, the best solution for you are lenses for one day use like 1- DAY ACUVUE®. Considering you take off your lenses every night and replace them every morning with a fresh and new pair of lenses, you don't get beads on them so lens cleaning is not necessary. Because of that many ophthalmologists and people who wear contact lenses belive that lenses for one day use are the healthiest and that this is the most suitable way of wearing contact lenses.

Contact lenses are different in many ways. There is a serie of factors, like life age, lifestyle and eye correction that are taken into consideration while choosing the right kind of lenses for eayh individual. Because of that, only ophthalmologist can tell you which lenses are most suitable for you. Today the choice is much bigger than before so this is an excitement time for people who wear soft contact lenses. Most of today's contact lenses, like those from the family ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses, so often be replaced but they offer the opportunity to have maximum of the vision, while keeping the eye healthy.

There are little things that affect your life quality significantly than your eyes condition, so don't ever endanger them. If you wear contact lenses, it is absolutelly necessary to properly care about them and to regulary renew them, for keeping your eyes healthy. In order to keep your eyes healthy, it is absolutelly important for all kinds of lenses, even the colored ones, to be properly adjusted to the eyes by the ophthalmologist. The doctor will make sure you get the most favourable contact lenses, that suit your eyes and your lifestyle. To get the most of your lenses, you should treat them properly and adhere to the instructions about care, given to you by ophthalmologist.