It is Apt to Bring about Eye Disorder by Using Contact Lenses When You Catch a Cold
Thursday, January 7th, 2010The pursuit of being beautiful is in women’s nature. And sometimes it is indeed inconvenient for people who are near-sighted to wear eyeglasses. Therefore, wearing contact lenses is one kind of fashion as well as life of convenience. But after all it is not suitable to wear contact lenses for a very long time, and there are a lot of things that needs attention. Therefore you should pay enough attention, especially it is not suitable to wear contact lenses when having a cold.

When you are having colds, wearing contact lenses will make your eyes watery, red and swollen. The cold virus will cause eye diseases such as keratitic that causes by virus. Because a person suffering from a cold might keep blowing his nose and sneezing with hands covering the mouth. There will be a large of bacteria on the hands, and germs and viruses are easy to go into the eyes and pollute the cornea when wearing and removing the contact lenses.
People who have the fever are not appropriate to wearing contact lenses. when you get a fever, the resistance of your eyes will decline, tear secretion reduce, and bacteria will multiply, 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 glasses when you are having a cold or getting any fever . Otherwise, you need to take caution on which medicine you should take when wearing contact lenses. because many anti-cold, cough, and pain medicines contain the ingredients suppressing tears. With the decrease of the amount of tear secretion, contact lenses will become too dry and their transparency reduce, which affect 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.

