Guide to remove soft contact lenses safely

How to Remove Contact Lenses Safely. The latter is difficult than the former one which raises risk of damaging the eyes. 

In the following article, there are precautionary measures given on how to remove contact lenses safely.

Steps to Remove Contact Lenses Safely

Here are steps that will hopefully help you to remove contacts skillfully.

1. Prior touching your contacts, make sure you wash your hands using a disinfectant solution. Dirty hands may raise risk of causing eye infections.
2. Now that your fingers are clean, open your eyes widely so that the eyeball area is visible.

    3.    Fill the contact lens case with disinfectant solution beforehand.

   4.    Now use the index finger of the recessive hand to pull the upper eyelid and then use middle finger of dominant hand to pull the lower eyelid. 

   5.     Look up and using the index finger of dominant hand, slowly pull down the contact lens and take out the lens.

    6. Rinse the contact lens before putting it in the appropriate case.

   7.     Repeat the same with another lens. Give rest to your eyes for sometime after removing the contacts.

Precautions While Removing Contact Lenses:

• Be careful and always handle the lens gently while removing it out.

• Avoid growing long fingernails as these can tear the lens while removing out.

• Never use the normal tap water for rinsing the lens.

• After removing the lens form the eyes, out them in a new solution.

• Remove your face makeup only after removing the contact lens.

Following these steps and precaution to remove contact lenses may seem tiring during initial days. 

However, once you get used, it seems to be very simple and easy. Hope this article may find helpful to you.