Wearing contact lenses bad or dangerous for your eyes?

The answer to this question largely depends on you.

Contact lenses have been popular for a long time, and the risk of the lenses damaging your eyes is extremely small when you closely follow the advice and recommendations of your eye doctor & optician.

However, we must take into account that contact lenses reduce the amount of oxygen that reaches the cornea of your eye, which can pose a certain risk of eye problems.

The potential serious complications of lenses include damage to the cornea, eye infections (of which there are many), dry eyes, and eventually even cancer of the eyeball. Some of these complications can lead to permanent loss of vision.

How to avoid lenses being bad for your eyes
The best protection against any damage to your eyes from wearing contact lenses is to carefully follow the advice of your eye doctor or optician regarding how long you can wear them and when they should be replaced.

Your eye doctor or optician will tell you how long you can safely wear your lenses and whether your eyes are able to wear them intensively and continuously, or whether you should only wear the lenses for a limited period during the day.

Also, maintain the lenses as indicated, and only use products that are recommended by your eye doctor or optician for their maintenance.

If there is a chance that you cannot guarantee the prescribed daily maintenance of your lenses, you can ask for daily disposable lenses.

You can simply throw these lenses away after use, relieving you of the task of cleaning and disinfecting the lenses daily.

With disposable lenses, you also have the advantage that you do not have to spend money on maintenance products.

To avoid serious problems to your eyes as a result of wearing contact lenses, you should ask yourself these questions at the start of each day:

Do my eyes look good?
Can I see well?
Do I feel good?
If your eyes are red or bloodshot, you may be suffering from dry eyes or an eye infection as a result of wearing lenses.

If your vision is not as clear as it used to be, your lenses may be dirty, or your eyes may be swollen from a lack of oxygen.

If your eyes feel uncomfortable, you may have a problem with your cornea, you may be suffering from dry eyes or an eye infection, or cancer may be developing in your eyeball.

If you find that there is a problem, remove the lenses from your eyes and make an appointment with your eye doctor as soon as possible.

Even if you experience no problems at all when wearing contact lenses, you should still go to your eye doctor for a routine check-up once a year.

He or she can notice potential eye problems before you do and ensure that you can continue wearing your lenses in a safe and comfortable way.