When requested what she would recommend if somebody have been on trip and forgot to convey contact lens answer, pushing them to decide on between sleeping whereas sporting contacts or utilizing faucet water to retailer them, Redfern refused to select both alternative.
“Each of these are terrible choices,” she mentioned. “I’d slightly you [throw the contacts out] and simply stroll round a bit bit blurry for the weekend.”
One factor Redfern does need us to do to maintain our eyes wholesome? Use eye safety extra repeatedly.
“I all the time put on eye safety if I’m doing a home challenge the place I’m hammering, sawing — something the place one thing can fly at my eye,” she mentioned. “All the time put on eye safety, as a result of I really spend half my time seeing hospital consults and the trauma that you just see is simply loopy.”
If you find yourself getting one thing lodged in your eye, don’t attempt to take away it your self. As an alternative, tape a paper cup over your eye and instantly see a medical skilled.
“Pulling it out in an uncontrolled trend [could cause] the interior contents of the attention to come back out with it,” Redfern mentioned.
She additionally busted some myths about different actions that could be dangerous or helpful for the eyes (spoiler alert — studying in the dead of night isn’t going to wreck your imaginative and prescient), why we get floaters (and once we ought to see a physician about them), and much extra.
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