Daytime lens removal needs
Do you sometimes need to take your lenses out during the day for a little while, in order to:
- apply a prescription eye drop
- do a warm compress
- clean the lenses (but decide not to put them back in immediately)
- take a shower
- go for a swim
The safe way
Place your lenses in a case filled with a MULTI-PURPOSE SOLUTION
The unsafe way
Due to acanthamoeba keratitis risk:
Never store your lenses in (or rinse them with) water
Never store your lenses in preservative-free saline (e.g. Scleralfil, Purilens, Nutrifill, VibrantVue, Lacripure, Addipak or any other sodium chloride 0.9% solution) or other filling solutions.
Dry storage is not suitable in between uses, only for long-term storage of non hydra-peg coated lenses; they need to be disinfected before next use.
Multi-purpose solutions hurt my eyes so bad that I am unable to use my scleral lenses. After cleaning with the multi-purpose solution, I must disinfect using Clear Care. Disinfection takes six hours which prevents me from using multi-purpose solutions for temporary storage when I need to reinsert them. I hope a different solution becomes available.
After temporarily storing in Unique PH, can I then rinse with Purilens and insert normally? I would be concerned that the Unique PH ingredients could harm my eye.
Why is saline not safe? That’s what I was told by every doctor I’ve seen.
Is it OK to store them temporarily in preserved saline, such as Bausch & Lomb Sensitive Eyes?