“The issue with contact lenses is that it’s going to sandwich micro organism between the lens and your cornea, and you may get contaminated after which have all of the problems we talked about,” she stated. “Basically, we frown upon something the place your eye goes to reveal to one thing nonsterile.”
That features utilizing faucet water to rinse or retailer lenses.
When requested what she would counsel if somebody have been on trip and forgot to convey contact lens resolution, pushing them to decide on between sleeping whereas carrying contacts or utilizing faucet water to retailer them, Redfern refused to choose both alternative.
“Each of these are terrible choices,” she stated. “I’d somewhat 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 recurrently.
“I at all times put on eye safety if I’m doing a home undertaking the place I’m hammering, sawing — something the place one thing can fly at my eye,” she stated. “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 simply 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 a substitute, tape a paper cup over your eye and instantly see a medical skilled.
“Pulling it out in an uncontrolled trend [could cause] the internal contents of the attention to come back out with it,” Redfern stated.
She additionally busted some myths about different actions that could be dangerous or helpful for the eyes (spoiler alert — studying at nighttime isn’t going to break your imaginative and prescient), why we get floaters (and after we ought to see a physician about them), and plenty extra.
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This text initially appeared on HuffPost.