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- ALEXANDER FLEMING, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945
We got a scare a couple of years back when our teenage son got an eye infection - the doctors and eye hospital went through five different antibiotics before finally finding something that fixed it, which was quite stressful. NB When you are warned not to wear contact lenses in swimming pools - take it seriously! We're almost certain that's how he got the problem.
If you wear contacts and follow all the rules exactly (like always taking them out before swimming/water sports, taking them out after X hours of wear each day, etc), I feel like they lose a lot of the convenience that made them so appealing in the first place.
You really want to just stick them in your eyes first thing in the morning and then forget about your crappy eyesight until bedtime, but it never seems to quite work out like that. (At least not for me, I have friends who wear them day in, day out with no apparent issues).
We got a scare a couple of years back when our teenage son got an eye infection - the doctors and eye hospital went through five different antibiotics before finally finding something that fixed it, which was quite stressful. NB When you are warned not to wear contact lenses in swimming pools - take it seriously! We're almost certain that's how he got the problem.
I've been wearing contacts most of my life and have never heard said warning. Given pools are typically fairly sterile, I'm not sure if understand it. Now freshwater lakes or oceans under certain conditions I could understand
We got a scare a couple of years back when our teenage son got an eye infection - the doctors and eye hospital went through five different antibiotics before finally finding something that fixed it, which was quite stressful. NB When you are warned not to wear contact lenses in swimming pools - take it seriously! We're almost certain that's how he got the problem.
That sounds really scary. I have gradually given up on contacts and gone back to glasses over the years - partly because of comfort, and partly because of hearing nasty stories of infections and complications caused by keeping them in too long. If you wear contacts and follow all the rules exactly (like always taking them out before swimming/water sports, taking them out after X hours of wear each day, etc), I feel l…
My son had them for a week and run into that problem and hasn't worn them since.
Good. Too many of us around. Good riddance.
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I've been wearing contacts most of my life and have never heard said warning. Given pools are typically fairly sterile, I'm not sure if understand it. Now freshwater lakes or oceans under certain conditions I could understand
It seems like a lot of these warnings relate to reusable lenses. I use daily disposables, and I really can't see how, say, getting tap water on them when I'm wearing them can be any more dangerous than splashing tap water in my eye.
I think dailies are somewhat safer, because you're starting each day with a sterile pair. But splashing any non-sterile water onto them is a mistake.
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If the choice is cheap meat or antibiotics (and yes I know it's not quite that simple) then I'll take antibiotics.
> If the choice is cheap meat or antibiotics Easy to say when you're wealthy, no so much when you consider yourself healthy but poor.
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It seems like a lot of these warnings relate to reusable lenses. I use daily disposables, and I really can't see how, say, getting tap water on them when I'm wearing them can be any more dangerous than splashing tap water in my eye.
I don't think that's true at all. I think the issue with contacts (even dailies) is that they can trap pathogens on the surface of the eye and give them a place to breed, allowing an infection to take hold. This could happen within a day while you have your lenses on. I think dailies are somewhat safer, because you're starting each day with a sterile pair. But splashing any non-sterile water onto them is a mistake.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Eyehealth/Pages/Contactlenssafety...