For those not wanting to wear specs or eyeglasses, contact lenses have been produced, and how! Several individuals believe in wearing contact lenses as it is stylish, convenient, and create no rash on the nose area, where specs tend to create rash due to the friction created between the lobe and the skin on the nose.
How Contact Lenses Affects Eyes While You Slept With It?
Contact lenses are made of the material synthetic, which tends to sit on the surface of the eye and in turn helps correct vision issues like long-sightedness, short-sightedness, presbyopia, which is a condition where your eye is not able to focus, and astigmatism, where one can have blurred vision.
Contact lenses have been known to be better than glasses for some and glasses have been known better than lenses, for some. There are legitimately two kinds of people, respectively. Contacts sit on the curvature of your eye which in turn, provides a wider field of view and lesser vision distortions and obstructions which eyeglasses are known to do. Contact lenses are not known to clash with what you are wearing, as some individuals believe. They are typically not affected by any weather conditions and do not tend to fog up during cold weather like eyeglasses.
Eyeglasses are seen doing something that contact lenses can not do which is that eyeglasses can adjust the amount of light that directly enters and hits the eye. They also require lesser cleaning and maintenance. You are not required to touch your eyes, internally, to wear them. This decreases the chances of eye infections, and glasses are known to be cheaper than contact lenses when we consider them in the long run. Eyeglasses are not required to be replaced now and then like contact lenses.
For those who use contact lenses daily, sure it is convenient especially for those who are into sports, or any outdoor activities where there exists no fear of breaking the eyeglasses or them getting in the way or falling.
Many questions arise especially for individuals who want to start using contact lenses and such questions go like, Is it okay to sleep with these lenses on? can we wear contact lenses daily for two days? can we take a short nap with lenses on? maybe just 20 minutes? Let us talk about what contact lenses do when they are in your eye for longer than they should be.
As we sleep, our eyes require oxygen too, and when the surface of the eye is not clobbered by some thin film, the eyes do get their required oxygen. When you SLEEP with contact lenses on, they tend to block the eyes from getting any oxygen. It has been and always will be known to be extremely dangerous because it suddenly increases the risk of you getting an eye infection.
People often tend to forget to remove their lenses before falling asleep. About one-third of the population that wears contact lenses, do that. It is a mistake, and it happens but there is nothing more serious than waking up with a small amount of dryness and they blink away adding a few drops.
Some contact lenses are known to be FDA-Approved for sleep, and those can be worn as you fall asleep but not the stylish contact lenses. Although, CSC mentions that it is not safe to sleep with the FDA-approved sleep contact lenses either as sleeping in any sort of contact lenses can make you a candidate for an eye infection with a higher risk.
Some contact lenses, meanwhile, can be worn at night, but most cannot. During the day, many pollutants get into the eyes, through the air medium and some make their way through the lenses. The trio of protection of the closed eyelid, lesser movement of the eye and the eyelid, and lesser oxygen reaching your cornea are known to create ideal conditions for bacterial and viral infections.
Conditions Like–
1. Conjunctivitis; is known to be a condition of pink eye and one of the most common, least dangerous, results of wearing contacts while you sleep.
2. Keratitis; is known to be an inflammation that is quite similar to conjunctivitis.
3. Corneal Neovascularization; If you see yourself avoiding infection, the lack of oxygen reaching your eyes shall eventually tend to grow more blood vessels which then will increase the supply of blood flow to the cornea. Neovascularization is known to impair vision as the vessels inhibit light from going although the cornea naturally.
Eye infections tend to lead you towards corneal damage, surgery, or even loss of vision in some cases. Hence, never make the mistake of wearing contact lenses while you sleep, be it overnight or for 20 minutes
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