What To Do If You Accidentally Put Contact Lens Cleaner In Your
Eye?
If you've ever accidentally put contact lens cleaner in the eye
you know what we are talking about. Yes, it itches and it burns
and you feel like gouging out your own eyes. What you need to do
in such a situation is stay calm (Right! With all that itching,
it's really easy to stay still)
Contact lens cleaner is not corrosive to the eye, though if left
inside for a long time can harm it. If you have had such a
cleaner accident, remove your contact lenses immediately and
liberally splash cold water into your eyes. Wait for sometime
before you insert the contact lens in the affected eye again. If
itching, redness or watering persists, go to your eye doctor
immediately.
How Did The Cleaner Get In My Eye?
Now that's a question with many answers. Patients have confessed
to several reasons how the lens cleaner meant strictly for their
contact lenses got into their eye in the first place.
The most popular cause of this kind of an accident with lens
cleaner was that they put the cleaner in the eye themselves
hoping it would help dry eyes. In other instances, contact
cleaner was put in along with the contact lens to help it to
settle in the eye more easily.
There is more.... one patient reported that he believed putting
lens cleaner in his eyes, while he was wearing his contact
lenses would actually keep them clean. Yet another one did not
understand the instructions for using the contact cleaner.
A lens cleaner is a special cleaner for contact lenses and helps
remove loose dirt and debris from your contact lens.
Manufactured by all leading lens makers contact cleaner
preparations use several chemicals like edetate disodium and
sorbic acid.
To avoid such a cleaner accident read instructions for use
carefully and see an eye doctor if you still happen to have an
accident.