What Horrific Things Could Contact Lenses Do to My Eyes?

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Is there any truth to the belief that contact lenses can get stuck “behind” your eye? Is it dangerous to use contact lenses past their “expiration date?”

Photo: Paula Daniëlse/Getty Images Eyes are terrifying. They are soft, and squishy, and seem like they could be injured easily at any moment. Their scariness is multiplied by the fact that many of us use our dirty little fingers to put tiny pieces of plastic inside of them every day in order to see out of them clearly.

Is it dangerous to use contact lenses past their “expiration date” — like, if they’re meant to be replaced every two weeks, and you use them for two months? And also in terms of contact lens cases, do not wash them in tap water, because there is a terrible amoeba called Acanthamoeba that’s in the tap water that can burrow into your eye. It loves contact lenses and tap water.So you should be cleaning your contact lens case with contact lens solution. And when you wash your hands, you should dry them with something disposable, like a tissue, before touching the contact lenses.

If you go to the emergency room and are put into an artificial coma, do you know if they check to see if you have contacts in your eyes?

 

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Yikes! If showering in contacts is forbidden, then how will I see to shower? My vision is abysmal, and I run into things if I don’t have my contacts or glasses. I’ve fallen in the shower when I was sans contacts.

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