Are you Tearing or Ripping your Soft Contacts Frequently?

Sometimes we have patients who have torn or ripped a contact once or more than once. They wonder what they did wrong. Here is some advice if this is you.

1. Avoid touching your contacts with your nails or pinching them too tight with the pads of your fingers.
2. If they are not approved to sleep in, don't. For more reasons than just tearing (see blog post about taking care of contacts), but sleeping in contacts dehydrates them, making them more brittle. When you take them out they are more likely to tear.
3. Dehydrated contacts are more likely to tear. If your eyes are dry or your contacts are dry by the end of the day you might want to try using rewetting drops throughout the day. They can be found in any pharmacy over the counter.
4. Put rewetting drops in 2-3 minutes before removing your contacts to make sure they are less rigid.

Picture from Bausch and Lomb Canada

1. Rewetting drops might be more important for our older patients who produce fewer tears and lower quality tears.
2. Always put your contacts in fresh solution every time you remove them and fill them up to the top of the lines in your case to make sure they are sufficently submerged every time.
3. Leave your contacts in the solution for 10 minutes before taking them out and rubbing them or rinsing them.
4. Always use good quality solutions such as OptiFree Pure Moist or ClearCare. The moisture particles in these solutions are small enough to fit in the pores of the contacts and stay with you throughout the day, opposed to wiping off as you blink.

If you consistantly have issues with tearing contacts and you are really good about caring for your contacts always check with your optometrist to see what your options are for replacing the torn ones, better care options for your particular lenses or trying a different type of contact lens.

Learn more about Opti-Free and taking care of contacts at: http://www.opti-free.com/

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World Sight Day Challenge: It's a Bake Sale!

Celebrating the World Sight Day Challenge

We care about our patients and about protecting your vision; we are also concerned about people around the world who lack access to quality vision care. Becaus of this, our practice Clarity Eye Care will participate in teh World Sight Day Challenge during October.

The World Sight Day Challenge is a campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they don't have access to an eye exam and a pair of glasses. Children are especially vulnerable. Providing vision correction to a school-age child can literally transform their entire life.

"...helping to give sight to people in need..."

Our practice will raise funds for the World Sight Day Challenge by making a donation, suggesting donations for doing adjustments during the month of October, and hosting a bake sale from October 8th to October 14th. We will have cookies, cakes, brownies, cupcakes, and bars! Anybody is welcome to stop by and help out a great cause!

Please join us in helping to give sight to people in need by scheduling your next appointment during October or just come in to make a donation.

Your donation will help support programs like the Mozambique Eye Care Project, that are trainingn local optometrists to ensure that in time, no child in that country will be limited by poor vision. Loid Semente (above) is one of the students training to become an optometrist with teh Mozambique Eyecare Project, supported by Optometry Giving Sight. Loid will be one of the first optometrists in her country.

She is passionate about optometry because of the significant impact it can have for the people of Mozambique. "Sight is empowering. For some, access to eye care is the first step towards getting an education, or providing for your family," she said.

Find out more about Optometry Giving Sight's World Sight Day Challenge at www.givingsight.org.

 

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