Have you ever wished your eyes were slightly bluer than their natural hue? Now you can have just that—even if you don’t need your vision corrected.
There are cosmetic contact lenses to enhance, or even change, the color of your eyes. This includes “plano,” or zero power, lenses with no magnification. There are even black sclera contact lenses to complete your next Halloween costume. However, since contacts are medical devices, you should speak with an eye care professional before using such novelty contact lenses.
It seems like no matter what your vision needs may be, we now have contact lenses to fulfill them.
Precautions:
It is not that use of contact lens is totally free from hazards. Following points should be born in mind before, during and after the use of contact lens. Before using contact lenses you must know about how to use contact lenses:
If contact lens is not cleaned at the time of use, eyes can get infected by bacterial invasion which can result in variable infections, contact lens irritation and contact lens eye infection. This is one of major contact lenses problems.
- Wash the lens properly with the solution provided by the doctors / opticians.
- Be extra careful while fixing and removing the lenses.
- If there is a different number for each lens, keep this fact in mind and keep each one in the plastic container which is marked with ‘L’ (left) and ‘R’ (right).
- If you feel the number has changed, at once contact your doctor / optician.
- Protect your contact lenses from dust, smoke and strong lights.
- Remove the contact lenses before you return to bed.
- Never rub your eyes while eyes are fitted with contact lenses.
- Careless handling and fixing of contact lenses hurriedly or while removing the same, may even injure your eyes.
- If size of contact lens is not exact and precise, i.e., not according to size of the eyes or curve is not in order, even then one can have pain, irritation, itching, lacrimation, or due to scratches on the lens, Hence get your lenses fitted by an experienced doctor / optician.
- Due to wrong fitting water may accumulate within the lens which can cause blinking, pricking and displacement of the lens. But all such complaints do occur initially and users of contact lenses should not give up their use under disgust or pseudo fear. Before using lenses you should learn from experts about how to use contact lenses.
- Do not use hard lenses; rather use soft or semisoft lenses.
- Use solution, meant for cleaning the lenses.
