Smokes Dangers for Circle Lens
It is a problem that we generally don’t think about but it can be serious for your circle lenses and your eyes: smoke from garden fire, home fireplace, barbecue, exhaust fumes and cigarette smoke which contain more than 400 toxic chemicals, all these smokes can cause dry eye and eye infection.
Smoke is a problem that you should worry about as any air pollution can be harmful for contact lens wearer’s eyes and can affect their health in general. Contact lenses can be hard, soft, corrective or not, they have all in common to catch fine airborne particles which can cause irritation, dry eye and sometimes even infections.
For smokers the best solution is to quit smoking to avoid any eye issue caused by smoke, but if you are not ready to quit or if you have no other choice but stay in a smoky environment, then you should always have with you an eye drop vial to be ready anytime to moisturize your eyes and contact lenses. You can find eye drops under different brands as C&C Solution, Renu Solution, Alcon Opti Free, Blink, Aqualarm or Aquify.
In general, you have to check very well how your eyes can stand a smoky place or environment, redness, tears or itchiness being the signs that you should remove your circle lenses and clean them as well as your eyes. It is strongly recommended that you use a multi-purpose disinfecting solution to wash, sterilize your eyes and remove any dust or small particle coming from the smoke.
Think about cleaning your contact lenses every time after removing them with multi-function-solution. The proper way to clean them is to gently rub your accessories with the multi-purpose solution and soak them in their case containing fresh mult-function solution. Think to always remove the old solution from your case, clean them often with multi-purpose solution and don’t forget to replace the case every 3 months.
The best deal if you know that you are going to be confronted to smokes is to wear daily disposable contact lenses, it will limit irritation and infection risks.