{"id":17704,"date":"2017-03-06T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=17704"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:02:35","slug":"never-shower-wearing-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=17704","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Never Shower Wearing Contact Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Showers and contact lenses don\u2019t mix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They say the eyes are the window to the soul. But did you know that if you wear contacts, you could potentially lose your sight by showering with them on? That may sound crazy but it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I visited my ophthalmologist because of persistent redness and tearing in my right eye. Before visiting his office, I had also noticed a pussy substance oozing out each morning, which I later learned was conjunctivitis.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the eye was painful to touch. It got so bad that I had to stop wearing my contacts and go back to putting on my trusty pair of glasses. I\u2019m near sighted so without some type of eyewear, I\u2019m kind of screwed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the doc gave me a thorough examination, he diagnosed me with a bacterial infection. I found that kind of odd because I always take special care to wash my contacts and hands several times a day.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, he asked me if I ever shower with my contacts on. It took me awhile to think about it before saying, \u201cYeah \u2013 pretty much all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when he suggested that my eye problem could have been caused by the showering with them on.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe but it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, if you shower with your contacts on, the water and any bacteria in it can remain in the eye and start to breed. In turn, this can contaminate your lenses, causing an infection called <em>keratitis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He explained to me that this type of bacterial infection (in the Staphylococcus Aureus family) can range from mild, which is what mine was, to severe.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/a3OgwJnQJLeYE\" width=\"480\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>via GIPHY<\/p>\n<p><\/center>If left unchecked, keratitis can actually cause a person to go blind! Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p>I did a little checking and found out that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends against exposing your contacts to anything besides contact lens solution, including tap water (even if filtered).<\/p>\n<p>This means bottled water, pools, lakes, oceans and yes \u2013 showers.<\/p>\n<p>My ophthalmologist advised that it\u2019s always a good idea to remove contacts before stepping into a steady stream of H20.<\/p>\n<p>He even suggested that if I get splashed in the eyes while wearing them, I should take the contacts out and then use a dry, clean finger and disinfect them using a solution.<\/p>\n<p>And one thing he told me that I had never thought about was the importance of thoroughly washing your hands after going poop. This made sense when you consider that bacteria live around your anus. It doesn\u2019t take much to spread germs!<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that with a prescription of antibiotic eye drops, my infection and symptoms went away in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my experience helps you to avoid any eye problems. After all, you only get one pair.<\/p>\n<p>Plus if you lose your vision, how will you ever see the cute guys?!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>By: Conrad Braxton<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showers and contact lenses don\u2019t mix They say the eyes are the window to the soul. But did you know that if you wear contacts, you could potentially lose your sight by showering with them on? That may sound crazy but it\u2019s true. 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