Clean your contacts for crying out loud. There was a day when you actually got your contacts the optometrist would give you the basic run-down of how to care for those semi-gelatinous discs. The first rule was always wash your hands. The second as always clean your contacts and soak them overnight. The third was never, ever fall asleep with your contacts on. You sleep eight or ten hours with your contacts on and you could be heading for a massive eye infection. No fun.
Though the tedium of rubbing your little contacts every night as you can barely keep your eyes open was done away with thanks to the introduction of no-rub solution, it was a short-lived reprieve. Indeed, no-rub, but that often resulted in tainted lenses and itchy, burning eyes the next day. Even with no-rub, you have to rub. Don’t believe the hype.
No-rub solution is not at all useless or even some kind of marketing ploy. On the contrary, no-rub solutions are far more powerful than their predecessors. The problem is that proteins and antigen can cling vociferously to lenses. The more gas-permeable and comfortable your lenses, the harder it is to keep them clean as irritants and pollution can permeate them on a molecular level. Powerful no-rubs are very good, with the help of your freshly washed fingers, at getting contacts squeaky clean.
Sensitive eyes need more TLC when it comes to cleaning and maintaining contact lenses. A contact solution worth it’s proverbial salt will need a bevy of hydrating agents to keep the lenses feeling fresh-from-the-packet. The sizeable minority of contact wearers with sensitive eyes has forced many top manufacturers to brand and distribute no-rub hydrating formulas. A stroke of genius.
Take the time, before your head hits the pillow, to pulls your lenses off your eyeballs. That’s the first step. Then, take good care of the lenses by rubbing with no-rub solution and storing them in a super-hydrating solution as well. Perhaps this is easier said than done, especially when it is 1 AM and you can barely stand, but with an ounce of prevention, you can save yourself a pound of cure.
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