What Are Disposable Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are great, because they enable you to see properly without having to change your look by wearing glasses. Contacts also have drawbacks especially when it comes to cleaning them. If you don’t keep your lenses scrupulously clean then you leave your eyes vulnerable to all kinds of infections. If you decide to use disposable lenses, then the cleaning and storing process is far easier.

Simply put, disposable contact lenses are lenses that you wear for a short time, usually one to three months, and then you dispose of them. A lot of people prefer disposable contact lenses because they are not as rigid as the ordinary, more permeable contact lenses. Even more important than lower rigidity is the fact that there is less chance of an infection when you use disposable contact lenses. Disposable lenses need less looking after than traditional contacts, they’re also better for the eye; because disposables are light they let more oxygen into the eye.

When you get more oxygen in your eyes, they get less tired and irritated, which is a common problem with traditional contact lenses. There are different types of monthly disposable lenses, and the ones that you choose will largely depend on how long you normally keep your contacts in. It is possible, for example, to get disposable contact lenses that only last for a day, but this can work out quite a bit more expensive than those that last from one to three months. The really good thing about daily disposables is that it does away with the cleaning and storing process altogether.

As with any contacts, you should not wear disposables in bed, typically, disposable lenses are meant to be used for about eight hours a day before you give the eyes a rest. It is possible to get continuous wear contacts, but many people find that after a certain amount of time the lenses irritate the surface of their eyes. Continuous contacts are fine if they don’t irritate your eyes, because you spend less time taking them out and cleaning them.

A lot of manufacturers now make multifocal disposable lenses, which require less care than many other lenses and don’t need the expensive cleansing lotions either. Some people like to alternate wearing disposable contacts with wearing their spectacles. For people who suffer the common problems of long and near sightedness, it is possible to buy disposables off the shelf, which means that most people can now wear them.

One of the best things about disposable contact lenses is that they are affordable. Most people continued wearing their spectacles, even on the occasions when they felt they would have looked better without them. Contact lenses were just too expensive and too much trouble for many people to bother with them. Disposables can be used for particular occasions, and because they are not expensive and you still have your spectacles, you won’t be quite so concerned about losing them. If you don’t want to wear either glasses or contacts all of the time, then getting some disposables means that you can ring the changes.