Sleeping with contact lenses can increase your risk of eye infection eightfold. The ophthalmologist talked about it daily mail.
A 2022 study found that people who wore reusable contact lenses (changed monthly) were almost four times more likely to suffer from Acanthomoeba keratitis than those who wore disposable lenses that were changed every day. This disease develops when amoebae, freshwater microbes that live in swimming pools and water pipes, enter the eye.
Sleeping with contact lenses can increase the risk of eye infection eightfold, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. There is also a risk of damage to the cornea due to the irregularities left by the nail on the lens it contacts. Therefore, the safest lenses are disposable ones.
“Never use tap water to clean reusable lenses, only use sterile saline solution. I have seen cases where this has led to serious corneal scarring, blindness, corneal transplantation and even eye removal,” warned Royal Bolton Hospital ophthalmologist Geoff Quartz.
previous doctors warned about the dangers of using earplugs at night.