Contact lenses?783?

Question

I'm currently on vacation in another country and wanted to try wearing contact lenses for the first time. Can I buy them here and then buy new ones in my home country, or is it bad or something for my eyes if I use different contact lenses?

lepetitgateau · Answer

Can you, it's not a good idea without proper lens introduction.

If you take the time to go to a proper optician and let you first show how this goes etc. then "sweetly" – But at first you can wear a maximum of 1-2 hours

rdsince2010 · Answer

Hello Pintos910.

Buying any standard contact lenses is a very, very bad idea.

You don't know how your eyes are tolerating them, you don't know the required visual strength, not the diameter, not the radius of curvature.

Diameter and radius must fit your eye size and eye shape. The oxygen permeability of the lenses to your corneal is also a very important factor: how long do you want to wear the CL? And how does the lens material relate to your tear film composition?

The lenses must be disinfected if you want to wear them several times, ie monthly lenses. What disinfection solution is compatible with your tear film and lens material? With day lenses, you don't need a cleaning solution, but you throw the CL away after a few hours, but this is also what I wrote up here.

Therefore, when you are back home, please get good advice and eye survey from an optician in your residential area.

sehfee · Answer

Try contact lenses spontaneously on holiday, even in another country, is not recommended. If you want to wear contact lenses for the first time, the path (after your doctor has given his OK to wear lenses) usually leads to the optician or to the optician. There you make a so-called contact lens adjustment. Various measurements are made. Based on the values, the adapter or the adapter then decides which contact lenses are suitable for you (material, fit, ...), how long you can wear them maximum on the day, etc. You will also get an introduction to the correct handling (up and down) and care. If you can do it alone to put the lenses on and off, you'll get test lenses. You can then test these for a few days. Then it goes again for post-control with the adapter or with the adapter. If everything is okay, you can buy the lenses in the used quantity (depending on whether they are, for example, day, month or year lenses). You should check it out at least once a year. You see there is a lot to consider. However, this procedure is also important, because your eyes are sensitive organs that you shouldn't deal with.