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Remove your contacts before you go swimming!

19 Monday Sep 2016

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To avoid an inflamed cornea, don’t wear your contact lenses when you shower or swim. Because bacteria-filled water can get trapped under your lenses, leading to an inflamed cornea. It’s painful – and it could even cause blindness. And nearly a million people get it every year. If you need to wear contacts or you forget to take them out – after you get out of the water, disinfect them, ASAP. Or if your contacts are the one-day disposable kind, throw them away after a shower or swim, and put in a fresh pair.

Important Halloween safety advice.

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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Halloween’s just around the corner. So, it’s time to talk about the dangers of decorative contact lenses. You might think it would be cool to wear golden contacts to enhance your vampire costume, or wear red lenses with your devil getup… But it’s dangerous.

Wearing lenses that are the wrong size or shape, or aren’t sterile, can lead to an allergic reaction, swelling, conjunctivitis, cornea damage, or even blindness. That’s according to Dr. Andrea Thau, a spokesperson for the American Optometric Association.

She says the only safe way to wear contacts – colored or otherwise – is to get a checkup and prescription from an eye doctor. In fact, it’s illegal to get lenses any other way. Why? Because the FDA regulates decorative contacts as medical devices – and they need a doctor’s prescription to be sold.

So, be sure to steer clear of websites, beauty salons, and flea market vendors that sell them.

Sometimes, you just can’t cut corners – and one of those times is when it comes to basic hygiene.

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

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That’s because ignoring certain basics can be downright dangerous. For example:

First: Sleeping in your contacts. It boosts your risk of developing infections by a whopping 1,000%. And can cause cornea scarring and permanent vision damage. In fact, one ophthalmologist from NYU Medical Center says 95% of the eye infections he treats come from someone sleeping in their contacts. So, take your contacts out and use new solution every time you clean and store them. If you don’t, it’s like taking a bath in yesterday’s dirty bath water.

Next: Not flossing. Experts say if you’re not flossing every day – it’s like taking a shower – but only washing your chest and back and forgetting your armpits and privates. You’re not getting 100% clean – and the spots you’re missing are where bacteria can hide. And over time, if you’re not flossing, that trapped bacteria will eat away at your tooth enamel.
The best time to floss is before bed, so food doesn’t have 8 hours to fester between your teeth.

And ladies, don’t go to bed without taking your mascara off. Sleeping in mascara can cause eye swelling. So, do your face and health a favor and wash up every night.