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Follow these healthy habits to wear your contact lens safely and help protect your eyes:

Don’t Sleep in Your Contact Lenses

Don’t sleep in your contact lenses unless prescribed by your eye care provider. Sleeping while wearing contact lenses has been shown to increase the chance of an eye infection by 6 to 8 times.
Replace your contact lenses as often as recommended by your eye care provider.

Wash Your Hands

Always wash your hands with soap and water before handling your lenses.
Dry your hands well with a clean cloth before touching your contact lenses every time.

Keep contact lenses away from all water

Water can introduce germs to the eyes through contact lenses. Remove contact lenses before swimming and avoid showering in them.

Properly Clean Your Lenses

Rub and rinse your contact lenses with contact lens disinfecting solution—never water or saliva—to clean them each time you remove them.
Don’t “top off” solution. Use only fresh contact lens disinfecting solution in your case—never mix fresh solution with old or used solution.
Use only the contact lens solution recommended by your eye care provider.

Take Care of Your Contact Lens Case

Clean your contact lens case by rubbing and rinsing it with contact lens solution—never water—and then empty and dry with a clean tissue. Store upside down with the caps off after each use.
Replace your contact lens case at least once every three months.

Why? Read the science behind the recommendations.

Talk with Your Eye Care Provider

Have a conversation with your eye care provider during your next appointment to discuss your contact lens wear and care habits and to help prevent eye infections.
Visit your eye care provider yearly or as often as he or she recommends.
Remove your contact lenses immediately and call your eye care provider if you have eye pain, discomfort, redness, or blurred vision.

Be Prepared

Carry a backup pair of glasses with a current prescription—just in case you have to take out your contact lenses.

Useful Links:

Optometry websites