Women are born with love of beauty. And it is really inconvenient sometimes to wearing prescription glasses for people with myopia. Consequently, wearing contact lenses is not only a trend but also a convenient lifestyle. But after all it is not suitable to wear contact lenses for a very long time, and there are a lot of things that needs attention. So, we should take care ; especially when you are having a cold you are not supposed to wear them.
When having a cold, people wearing contact lenses will feel the eyes easy to weep and the eyes will become inflammation. The virus will bring the eye diseases, such as virus keratitis. Because a person suffering from a cold might keep blowing his nose and sneezing with hands covering the mouth. There are a lot of germs in our hands, so these germs will easily contaminate our corneas when we are putting on or putting off the contact lenses.
Nor is it appropriate for us to wear them when we catch a fever. During the fever, the resistance of eyes will decline, and tear secretion will reduce,therefore the bacteria will multiply. Eyes metabolites deposited in between the cornea and the lens, and make its oxygen permeability decreased and the eyes vulnerable to diseases.
Advice from the ophtalmologist: It is best for those who wear contact lenses to turn to frame glasses online if they catch a cold or fever. In addition, you should be careful with the medicine you chosen even when you are wearing contact lenses, Because some medicines of anti-cold, cough or pain contain the ingredients which suppress tears. The reduction of tear secretion would make the lenses too dry, and reduce their transparency, thereby affecting the sight. The cornea itself is easy to become dry, artificially reducing the moist level of the cornea will lead to keratitis, conjunctivitis and other inflammatory, which make the eyes red, itching and having a feeling of foreign body.