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Cleaning Soft Lenses

  1. If cleaning your lenses over a sink be sure and plug the sink prior to starting to avoid lens loss.
  2. Clean one lens first(always the same lens first to avoid mixups).
  3. Form a cup with your hand and place the lens in the center. Cover the lens with cleaning solution.
  4. Using your index finger rub the lens gently into the palm of your hand using a back and forth motion for about 30 seconds.
  5. Rinse the lens thoroughly with rinsing solution or saline and replace into case, covering again with saline.
  6. Repeat with other lens.

Disinfecting Soft Lenses

With soft lenses it’s imperative that you choose a disinfecting method. Use either chemical or heat but do not mix methods.

Heat Disinfecting

  1. After you have cleaned your lenses, and covered them in the solution recommended by your eye care practitioner, tightly close the lids of the case and place the case into the disinfecting unit following the instruction for operating your unit.

Emergency Method

For heat disinfection: If your heat unit is not available.

  1. Place the tightly closed storage case which contains the lenses into a pan of already boiling water.
  2. Continue to boil for 15 minutes making sure that the water doesn’t boil away.
  3. Remove the pan from the heat and allow it to cool for 30 minutes.
  4. Resume the use of your heat disinfecting unit as soon as possible.

Chemical Disinfecting

  1. After you have cleaned your lenses, rinse thoroughly with a steady stream of saline or rinsing solution recommended by your eye care practitioner.
  2. Place your lenses back into case and fill chambers with disinfecting solution completely covering the lenses.
  3. Tightly close the lens case.
  4. Leave the lenses in the case for at least four hours.
  5. Before reinsertion be sure and rinse thoroughly with sterile saline solution or the solution recommended by your eye care practitioner.

Additional Cleaning

Some systems utilize enzymatic cleaners which can be used once a week to remove protein deposits. Follow the instructions from your eye care practitioner or those on the packaging.

Warning

Chemical disinfecting solutions should not be used in heat disinfection units unless indicated on packaging. Such use may damage your lenses. Never use hard lens solutions for soft lenses nor soft lens solutions for hard lenses unless indicated on packaging.

Care for a Dried-Out Lens

If your lens is off your eye and exposed to the air for 30 minutes or longer it’s surface will dry and gradually become nonwetting. To re wet your lens:

  1. Handle dried out lens carefully. It will be brittle and could crack.
  2. Carefully place it into your case and let it soak in storage solution for at least one hour.
  3. After the lens has become wet again, clean and disinfect using the system recommended by your eye care practitioner.
  4. If after soaking the lens doesn’t become soft do not use the lens but contact your eye care practitioner.