What Happens When You Wear Contact Lenses For Too long

Peoples have some question in their mind about contact lenses like " how long a contact lenses should be wear and what happen if its wore them longer than its recommended time period"

However it may be enticing to impel each pair of your contact lenses to the very edge because of discern high costs, a recently expired prescription, or other reasons; that can have a major negative impact on your overall eye health and your vision.

So it is very important that understand how long to wear a contact lenses. It’s important to first understand the different contacts types available and their FDA-approved length of wear time, following are

Daily wear lenses:

It can be wear daily but when its removed at night to sleeping and stored with an saline solution

Daily disposable:

Remove every two week or sooner

Extended-wear contact lenses:

It can be wear overnight, normally for seven days consecutively without removal

Based on your contact lenses and their recommended time period, what "too long" means is going to differ. If you wear lenses in daily routine and your doctor advice that you change them every fourteen days although you wearing those for 2 months continuously, then it’s create numbers of problems

The problems associated with wearing contact lenses for too long can include:

Chronic inflammation

Chronic inflammation is the primary issue that can rise from wearing contact lenses their recommended time. Over time and with ongoing swelling and due to this you not able to wear contact lenses anymore

Corneal abrasions

This happens when you collect grime or debris under your contact lenses that cause scratches on the cornea of your eye. Scraping, when not allowed to heal properly, become aggravated, or become find to bacteria, can develop into a corneal ulcer.

Corneal ulcers

It’s is also called infectious keratitis, corneal ulcers are very harmful and common eye conditions. They present as an open sore or white looking spot in the outer layer of the cornea and giving pain, eye pain and light sensitivity. Corneal ulcers will be treated by a doctor with an antibiotic drop and require you do not to wearing contact lenses for an extended amount of time in order to allow your cornea to properly heal.

Corneal hypoxia

Regardless of which type of contact you use, if they’re worn passed the recommended wear time, it will reduce the amount of oxygen available to the cornea, which results in corneal hypoxia. Mild cases and symptoms of hypoxia include blurred vision, burning, scratchy feeling, and excessive tearing; all of which are temporary. More severe cases, however, can lead to the death of epithelial cells resulting in permanent changes in vision or neovascularization which results in new blood vessel growth on the cornea.

Damage to corneal stem cells

Your cornea can maintain its transparency by rapidly replacing aged or injured epithelial cells on the cornea. The stem cells that are present on your cornea further guarantee that these epithelial cells will be renewed and that your cornea will remain transparent. By wearing your contacts passed their recommended wear time, you could risk damaging these stem cells which would result in a condition that causes an opaqueness in your cornea; in addition to this, there’s also an increased chance of infection, guaranteed vision loss, and other complications.

Your vision is very important and keeping your eyes healthy should be a top priority for you. As a contact lens wearer this starts with listening to the advice of your doctor, only wearing your contact lenses according to the manufacturer's recommendations, and properly caring for your lenses the entire time.

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