6 Tips to Keep Your Eyes Healthy With Contact Lenses : empowher

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6 Tips to Keep Your Eyes Healthy With Contact Lenses

6 Tips to Keep Your Eyes Healthy With Contact Lenses

Syda Productions/FotoliaContact lenses may be the perfect answer to your vision problems.But if you don't take good care of your lenses, they could also do real damage to your eyes.As part of Contact Lens Health Week, check out these tips to get the most of your contact lenses:1) Buy from a professionalAccording to All About Vision, contact lenses are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because they are medical devices.


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Not Wearing Contact Lenses Correctly Can Cause Eye Damage

Not Wearing Contact Lenses Correctly Can Cause Eye Damage

(Newser) – Sleeping with contacts in or forgetting to swap in a new pair according to schedule may be the unintended result of a harried lifestyle, but it could also lead to long-term eye damage, a new CDC study reports.Researchers looked at 1,075 cases of eye infections reported to an FDA medical device database over a 10-year period ending in 2015, and of those infections, almost 20% of them ended up causing more serious eye injuries, a CDC release reports.Those injuries ranged from scarred corneas and cornea transplants to other forms of vision problems.


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For Pete's Sake, Don't Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lenses : Shots

For Pete's Sake, Don't Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lenses : Shots

For Pete's Sake, Don't Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lensesi toggle caption Erik Tham/Getty Images Erik Tham/Getty ImagesContact lenses are so ubiquitous — about 41 million people in the U.S. wear them — that it's easy to forget that they're actual medical devices, with small but real medical risks.An analysis published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined 1,075 reports of corneal infections related to contact lens use from the Food and Drug Administration's Medical Device Report database over a decade.To be sure, these were likely the worst of the worst of these types of infection and can't be considered representative of contact lens infections overall.

For Pete's Sake, Don't Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lenses : Shots