How to Maintain Healthy Vision with 5 Easy Tips from Cheap Contact Lenses Online

SARASOTA, Fla., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With the proliferation of Lasik and other corrective eye surgeries, many who are living with poor vision are hastening to receive the procedural green light from doctors. But even if prospective patients are deemed "suitable" surgery candidates, they may still face unforeseen risks and potential vulnerabilities.

Many of these deficiencies stem from the fact that Lasik is a relatively new procedure; its shortcomings and long-term impact on the cornea have yet to be fully discovered. One thing is known, however, as a study published in the 2008 American Journal of Ophthalmology found that one in five people who had Lasik for nearsightedness underwent another corrective procedure within the 10 years that followed.

Yet with contacts, many people have been wearing lenses for years - 34 million in the United States alone. And while there are risks involved with doing so, there are also a number of things one can do to better their chances of living problem-free with contacts.

To maintain healthy vision, Cheap Contact Lenses Online - a popular online contact lens aggregator that assists consumers in finding preferred brands at the web's lowest prices - details some of the best practices one should follow on a regular basis.

1. You wash your hands before handling food, so do the same before touching your lenses.
   Hands can pick up bacteria from anything with which they come in contact. Just as it's harmful to ingest food touched by dirty hands, handling your lenses without properly cleansing is advised against. 
2. But be careful - clean hands only go as far as clean lenses.
   When the lens is in place, proteins and lipids produced by the eye build up on the surface. So, even if lenses are handled with clean hands, they are inherently dirty from a full day's use. Clean lenses of impurities to avoid transfer of microorganisms to your eye once put back into place.
3. Contacts don't do any good with closed eyes, so why wear them while you sleep?
   Not many things are worse than not cleaning lenses, but not removing them before you go to sleep just might be. With a shut eye, oxygen is reduced and probability of infection increases, as any germs on an unclean lens will come in direct contact with an eyelid closed on top of it.
4. Listen to your doctor; replace your lenses as directed. 
   Your contact lenses never really expire per se, but wearing them longer than prescribed exposes the eye to infection. Even if cleaned properly, calcium, lipids, and bacteria all build on the lens over time. Plus, rips and tears not only cause discomfort but can also irritate the eye.
5. You store your contacts for a third of the day, so store them properly.
   You should never store your contacts in water, as water does not contain the necessary cleaning agents; nor is it a pure solution free of pollution. Also be sure to replace your case as often as you would a toothbrush.

ABOUT CHEAP CONTACT LENSES ONLINE

Cheap Contact Lenses Online is a website dedicated to improving the way consumers shop for contact lenses. Aggregating contact lens purchase options found across the web into one website, Cheap Contact Lenses Online has streamlined the purchase process by allowing contact seekers to research a number of different lenses, find the lowest prices and related discounts for preferred brands, and complete checkout in just a few clicks. More information can be found at cheap-contactlensesonline.com, and interested consumers can connect with the company on Facebook and/or through Twitter.

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