Category: Contact Lens

A contact lens, or simply contact, is a thin lens placed directly on the surface of the eye. Contact lenses are considered medical devices and can be worn to correct vision, or for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons.

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10 Best Hygienic Way to Handle and Apply Contact Lens

These tips are very easy and helpful for your contact lens handling, these tips will also help in maintaining eye health acre and contact lens hygiene. Some general people may have these practical quarries about contact lens.

We are recommend 10 easiest way to handle your contact lens, These are given below:-

  1. Always wash your hand with normal shops before you keep contact lens on your palm.
  2. Gently take or slide the lens on your palm wash with proper contact lens solution, lightly rub to clean without any damage make sure you are not using nails otherwise lens will tear or break.
  3. Always check before put lens into eye, your lens is not inside out. Place the lens on the index finger if it is look like bowl and edge of lens is inward then its correct side or if its edge is outward then it is wrong side.
  4. Place the lens on tip of index finger remaining solution can through from the palm, with the finger of other hand pull upper lid and hold lower lid with the finger of other hand which is holding the lens.
  5. Now put lens on the black part of the eye which is cornea or can place it over the white part of eye opposite nasal side, wearer may decide which is easier. Then turn the eye on that side where lens is placed, it will come on the right position on cornea by itself slowly gently close your eyes.
  6. You can gently blink eyes lots of water will come, eyes may little red that is normal, make sure by looking in mirror that the lens is place centered, check comfort ness and vision one by one eye cover. 
  7. Removing of lens is always easy than insertion, slid the lens over white part of eyeball by index finger and pinch it with index and thumb without using nails take off the lens.
  8. Make up tips while using lens: use makeup after putting lens wash you hand make sure no touch of any oil, powder, cream on the lens, in time of remove lens first remove primarily eye makeup as much as you can gently then take off lens finally remove remaining makeup totally.
  9. Weekly wash lens case in normal water and then boil case in hot water for 10 minutes, change solution in which lens is soaking every 2 to 3 days, replace lens solution check the expiry. Very important replace the lens according schedule monthly, daily, quarterly.
  10. Contact lens only cover cornea though it is Ultra violet protected but for full protection you will use sunglass. Ask your doctor how long you can use lens per day they can suggest you not more than 12 to 14 hrs. Do not rub eye when lens is inside, lubricating eye drops can put on eyes for avoid dryness.

These are common and easy tips for good experience in contact lens journey for better eye health and vision.

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Brief Idea of Multifocal Contact Lens | Eyesight4you

In contact lens world we have a good option for presbyopia people or who are using bifocal glass, that is multifocal contact lens which helps to correct presbyopia by providing vision correction for both distance and near. It has multiple power on a single lens help to see clear at different range of distance.

One lens with multiple power which is best option for correction of presbyopia is a gradual loss of near vision due to age which is very common at 40’s.

Choosing of Multifocal Contacts:

Do not buy this contact lens by online always ask your eye doctor or optometrist, give information about your life activity, hobbies, your glass prescription and then go for the options which are good and suitable for you.

The options are: In past may now also people are suggested to wear contact lens for distance and use reading glass for near.

  • Monovision, is easier to acceptable which allows one eye to wear distance correction lens, for other eye near correction lens, but depth of perception will compromise.
  • Bifocal contact lens has a thin line which divide far and near power, multifocal contact lens has gradual power distribution from far to near.
  • One lens with multiple power which is best option for correction of presbyopia is a gradual loss of near vision due to age is very common at the age of 40.

Success Points:- 

  • Aware of multifocal contact lens option to all presbyopia person so they may have all options like bifocal glass, progressive glass and contact lens.
  • We can suggest glass for near and contact lens for distance power. Motivate the person to try for few hours like 3 to 4 hrs for habits, also suggest daily disposable who use contacts for hardly 2 to 3 days in a week. For unmotivated patient can suggest trail lens to get their confidence.
  • Always let them know to about minimum expectation that your eye is not like it was at the age of 15yrs old. Try spherical equivalent, place it on trail frame as much as spherical power possible, place +2 D alternately one by one ask patient which is clearer in near on non-dominant eye without disturbing distance vision. 80 percent of patients may happy and 20 percent of patient may not this is normal psychology.    

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Advantages Of Using Toric Contact Lenses For The Correction of Astigmatism

Why Toric Contact Lens

This is a very much satisfying product to correct Cylinder power and to give clear vision. The shape of the eye is irregular, it means eye may has astigmatism or cylinder power, so in this case the soft spherical contact lens is not purely capable of correction for cylindrical power, so we can advise Soft Toric Contact Lens and the result wil be amazingly acceptable also satisfying.

Spherical lens has one power and Toric lens has two power one is spherical and another is cylindrical, Toric lens can correct astigmatism.

Now What is Astigmatism

It is a refractive condition where the eye can not focus the image in one point, it will form two lines of images, the result is Blur image. To this condition cylindrical power is using in spectacle and also in contact lens as a correction.

How Can I Feel Astigmatism:- The person who has astigmatism may face commonly blurring of vision, spreading of words, edges of letters are not clear, also have headache, eye pain, eyestrain. In case of small amount of astigmatism, the symptoms are less or nil.

 Correction Options for Astigmatism

A big amount of people is generally use spectacle in from of cylinder. RGP contact lens are more accurate in case of high cylinder power more than 4D, because of its rigidity this lens keeps maintain its shape than soft lens. If the cornea has irregular surface and the astigmatism is high then the fitting may be unstable and discomfortable.

Spherical soft lens means the power distribution is even in all meridian of the lens, a good option for low cylinder power up to 0.75D. It is very common choice but depends on patient’s satisfaction.

Toric soft lens main indications are when the vision with glass is compromised, spherical lens will not provide satisfaction, when cylinder power is more than 1D, wearer are not comfortable with RGP. Toric lens has a particular axis same as spectacle, marking is present over the lens.

How to Wear

Wearing of soft toric lens is as similar like spherical lens. Practitioner need to check fitting, full coverage of cornea, only 0.5mm movement in the time of blinking, proper centration, clear vision.

Some good advisable Toric soft lens in market are 1Day Acuvue Moist, Acuvue Oasys, Baush n Lomb Pure vision for Astigmatism, Air optix.