Name: What Happens When You Sleep In Your Contact Lenses
Uploaded: 2018-09-10T07:16:58.000Z
Duration: 3 min 1 s
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but they're safe if you take care of them appropriately,

Think of the contact lens as foreign material in your eye.

Leaving them in when you sleep can cause an eye infection

that can sometimes be really, really bad.

but some infections can be really, really severe,

sort of a permanent change in your vision.

Sometimes an infection can be devastating,

to scar to the point that someone might need

a corneal transplant or lose vision completely.

Really serious blinding kind of infections

related to contact lens wear are rare, fortunately.

then nobody would ever wear contact lenses.

So, good contact lens hygiene has to do with a few things.

to be changed every month or every two weeks

even if you have to put a little reminder

So, a contact lens does start to break down over time

It's gonna form micro-breakdown kind of edges,

I mean, your eye just doesn't have enough moisture

If you think of the contact lens as a sponge,

and you might even have to replace it every so often,

because it just doesn't do the job right anymore.

and entrapped in the eye underneath the lid,

where patients come in with chronic red eye,

but you can actually extract a contact lens

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