Hygiene - Control - Action
Follow-up checks are a routine process for contact lens wearers and should be attended to at least once a year. Please bring the cleaning products and container you have used with you. This is sometimes necessary to find the cause of a problem. If you show the following symptom(s), a quick visit should be carried out: Blurred vision, unexplained redness in one or both eyes, or the front part of the eye, watery eyes with or without secretion. increased sensitivity to light and foreign body sensation. Risk of infection contact lenses - What you should consider: Before putting on or taking off the contact lenses, wash your hands and dry them with a clean cloth! A contact lens case should NEVER be used as long as a toothbrush, maximum three months! Often underestimated: Using a care product that suits both the tear film and the contact lens material. My care product "immerdasda" can definitely be the reason for your problems. WATCH OUT! on the ingredients - your body - your house! BAC=benzalkonium chloride or thiomersal is no longer used in high-quality care products. Bisphenol is also questionable. Although these are bactericidal and fungicidal, they accumulate in the lens material. It loosens the cell structures of the epithelium in the eye and destroys the lipid film in the tear fluid. Drugs can cause changes and affect the tolerability of the contact lens. You must notify us of any change in comfort, such as excessive tearing, redness of the eye, deterioration in vision, or allergic reactions. If this is not done, complications or illness can lead to damage! For rigid/flexible contact lens users: Maintain hygiene discipline, dirty lenses and cases are the number one cause of complications. Rinsing stable contact lenses with tap water is perfectly legitimate. The prerequisite is drinking water quality and subsequent storage in disinfecting storage liquid. Store the lenses in the sanitizing storage solution overnight or at least four hours. Do not rinse the lenses with tap water immediately before insertion. Before removing the lenses, you should drip a drop of wetting solution into the lower conjunctival sac, now the lenses can be removed from the eye much more easily. If a visual aid is entered in the driver's license, the official driver's license eye test must be carried out again after the fitting of orthokeratological contact lenses. You can then apply for a new driver's license. It is the responsibility of the lens user to have a driving license eye test performed again after stopping this type of correction. For users of soft contact lenses: Soft lenses dehydrate up to 20% during the day, which reduces vision and wearing comfort. Soft contact lenses must NEVER come into contact with tap water! After wearing the contact lenses have to be cleaned manually, usually with an all-in-one solution. If necessary, additionally with a concentrated cleaning solution. To do this, the lens is gently rubbed between two fingers or in the palm of the hand. Gently rub the contact lens from the center to the edge. The foreign substances that are no longer firmly attached are removed by the subsequent rinsing. Then place the lenses in the appropriate bowls of the container and fill up with solution, screw on the container lid. For complete disinfection, leave the lenses in the case for at least six hours. Throw away an opened bottle of contact lens solution 90 days after first use! Dispose of the container as often as possible, it is often a source of ignition.