subject: It is Apt to Cause Eye Problem by Using Contact Lenses While You Have a Cold [print this page] The pursuit of being beautiful is in women's nature. And it is really inconvenient sometimes to wearing sunglasses for people with myopia. so wearing contact lenses is a kind of trend and convenience of life, but, after all it is not suitable for wearing contact lenses for long term and there are many things you need to take notice of, So, we should take care ; especially when you are having a cold you are not supposed to wear them.
When you have a cold and wear lenses at the same time, you might have tearing eyes, which are red and swollen. The cold virus will cause eye diseases such as keratitic that causes by virus. Because when you are having cold and keeping sniffing and sneezing, you will use your hands to touch them. Bacteria easily get their way into the eyes and pollute the cornea when people take on or take off the lenses with bacteria-studded hands.
People who have the fever are not appropriate to wearing contact lenses. When we catch a fever, the immune system of some parts of our eyes are weaken, tear secretion reduced, and bacteria multiply in large numbers. The metabolites of the eyes are deposited between lenses and corneas, impeding the oxygen getting through the lenses and causing the eye diseases .
The eye experts advise that contact lenses users are better not to use contact lenses or to change them to your frame eyeglasses when you are having a cold or getting any fever . Furthermore, you also need to pay more attention to the medicine you choose. Because some medicines of anti-cold, cough or pain contain the ingredients which suppress tears. The decrease of tear secretion will make the contact lenses too dry, reduce transparency, thereby affecting vision. Cornea itself is easy to dry, if we further reduce the moist level of the cornea, many inflammation might come into being, such as keratitis, conjunctivitis, and make the eyes red, itchy and have a feeling there is foreign matters in them.
It is Apt to Cause Eye Problem by Using Contact Lenses While You Have a Cold
