How to Clean Your Contact Lens Case: The Step Everyone Skips
People obsess over cleaning their contact lenses and forget the case entirely. The case sits on the bathroom counter for months, getting rinsed with tap water and air dried upside down on a tissue. That case is a bacteria farm.
Your lenses spend eight hours a night in that case. If the case is contaminated, your lenses are contaminated. Here is the right way to clean it.
Rinse With Fresh Solution, Not Water
Never rinse your case with tap water. Acanthamoeba and other organisms live in water and thrive in the warm, dark environment of a contact lens case. Use fresh multi-purpose solution to rinse the case every time you remove your lenses. Dump out the old solution, squirt in fresh, swish it around, and dump that too. Then refill with fresh solution and store your lenses.
Air Dry Daily
After your lenses go in, empty the case completely and let it air dry upside down on a clean tissue. Moisture trapped in a sealed case breeds bacteria within hours. A dry case between uses is dramatically safer than a wet one.
Replace Every Three Months
Cases are cheap. Replace them on schedule. Scratches form on the plastic over time, and bacteria colonize those scratches. No amount of rinsing removes bacteria from scratches. New case every three months. A multi-pack costs about five dollars.
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