When you take possession of your contact lenses, your optometrist is obliged to give you the basic ground rules for taking care of your eyes and your contacts. There are three basic rules. The first is always wash your hands before you touch your eyes. The second is clean your contacts and soak them overnight. The third is never fall asleep with your contacts on — ever. Sleeping with your contacts on can lead to a horrible eye infection.

The tedium of rubbing your contacts every night — every night, mind you — when you can barely keep your eyes open was seemingly done away with, thanks to the introduction of no-rub solution. The reprieve was short-lived. Indeed, no-rub, but that often resulted in tainted lenses and itchy, burning eyes the next day. Even with no-rub, you have to rub. Don’t believe the hype.

Not to belabor a point, no-rub solution can be very effective. They are far more powerful than their predecessors. The problem is that proteins and antigen can cling vociferously to lenses. The more gas-permeable and comfortable your lenses, the harder it is to keep them clean as irritants and pollution can permeate them on a molecular level. Powerful no-rubs are very good, with the help of your freshly washed fingers, at getting contacts squeaky clean.

Sensitive eyes, however, need even more care in terms of cleaning and maintaining contact lenses. A contact solution worth it’s proverbial salt will need a bevy of hydrating agents to keep the lenses feeling fresh-from-the-packet. The sizable minority of contact wearers with sensitive eyes has forced many top manufacturers to brand and distribute no-rub hydrating formulas.

You have to take the time to take your contacts out before fall head-over-heels into bed. Take good care of the lenses by rubbing with no-rub solution and storing them in a super-hydrating solution as well. Perhaps this is easier said than done, especially when it is 2 AM and you can barely stand, but with an ounce of prevention, you can save yourself a pound of cure.

Don’t be fooled — no-rub contact solutions are useful and can be very effective cleaners. But, it is crucial you take the time to make sure your lenses are as clean as possible. This is where rubbing comes into play, even when you’re using a no-rub contact solution. You can get a unique content version of this article from the Uber Article Directory.

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