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Care of contact lenses
Protein Removal
The longer you wear your contact lenses the more important care of contact
lenses with protein removal products becomes. Protein can build up on your contacts because your
tear fluid naturally contains protein deposits that over a period of weeks or months may end up
on your contact lenses. These deposits can make wearing contact lenses uncomfortable, and may lead
to eye irritation or damage. Contact lens protein deposits become more prevalent the longer you
use the same pair of contacts before replacing them. If you're replacing your contact lenses daily,
you're unlikely to need a protein removal solution. However, if you use the same pair, with appropriate
contact lense care, for about a year this is a definite must. The two products specific to this
step of care of contact lenses are daily protein removal liquids and enzymatic protein removal
cleaners.
Daily protein removal liquids may be combined with multi-purpose solution
during the disinfection step of care of contact lenses. Before this step, of course, you clean
and rinse your contacts with the appropriate product(s). After this, pour multi-purpose solution
into your contact lens case, and then place into each well a drop of the daily protein remover.
Follow this with the disinfection step of care of contact lenses.
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week you can add to this protein removal effort with the use of enzymatic protein removal cleaners.
These are usually tablets you add to multi-purpose, hydrogen peroxide, or saline solution during
the disinfection step of contact lens care. Before this step, as with the daily protein removal
liquids, clean and rinse your contact lenses with the appropriate product(s). When it's time to
use the enzymatic cleaner tablets, pour saline, multi-purpose or hydrogen peroxide solution into
your contact lens case, then add the enzymatic cleaner tablet. Let the tablets completely dissolve
in the solution, and then drop in your contacts. Wait the specified time, generally about fifteen
minutes, before moving on. If you use a multi-purpose or hydrogen peroxide solution with the enzymatic
cleaner in the care of contact lenses, you may have satisfied the disinfecting step; check the
packaging of the enzymatic protein removal cleaner you're using to make sure.
Always follow the directions on the packaging for the products you use for
the care of contact lenses and the advice of your eye doctor.
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