• Always wash your hands with warm water and soap before handling your contacts or before touching your eyes and dry your hands with a clean towel. Tiny residues from lotions, soaps, or chemicals may adhere to the lens, causing pain, irritation, or blurred vision.
• Wear your contacts as prescribed for the time recommended.
• Clean and always store your contact lenses in a clean case in fresh solution, as recommended by your doctor.
• Clean your contact lens by rubbing it gently with your index finger in the palm of your hand, even better, the newest "no rub" solutions allow you to rinse your lenses only.
• Never wear another person’s contacts, especially if they have been worn before as each lens is individually prescribed according to the visual problems. It can also spread any bacteria, infection, or particles from their eyes to yours.
• While the eyes are closed, tears cannot carry healthy amounts of oxygen to the eye, so do not sleep with your contacts in unless you have been prescribed an "Extended wear" material. In case you accidentally fall asleep with your contacts in, be sure to put eye drops in your eyes and wait a few minutes before trying to remove the lenses.
• Try to keep all useful information provided by your eye care doctor and seek immediate help if you have any degree of sudden vision loss, blurred vision, light flashes, eye pain, infection, swelling, unusual redness, or irritation.
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