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Is it OK to Wear Contact Lenses?

Rest assured that #ContactLens wear is safe during the #COVID19 pandemic as long as proper hand washing and disinfecting procedures are followed

– Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before touching your eyes, especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
– If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
– Contact lenses should be either disposed daily or disinfected daily.
– Disinfect your glasses, especially if you remove and put them on multiple times in a day

Be extremely careful. Now is not the time to get an eye infection!

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Contact Lens Recycling in Durham Region

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New year, new GREEN choices!! 🌎 Personally, I always felt very conflicted between the hygiene benefits of daily disposables vs. the increased waste, so I’m very excited to announce that we now participate in a contact lens recycling program through Bausch + Lomb! Collect a bag of your blister packs and the contacts themselves (make sure they’re dry), and come drop it off at our office! The boxes can go through regular paper recycling.

Learn more at https://www.everycontactcounts.ca/ 🚮

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Contact Lenses Should NOT Be Flushed

Yes, unfortunately contact lenses need to go in the trash. They should not be washed down the sink or flushed down the toilet! The packaging, however, can usually be recycled.

Research showed that one in five contact lenses users throws them into the sink or toilet. They float through the wastewater system and rather than degrading, they tear into smaller and smaller pieces. They settle into the sewage, and make their way into rivers, lakes, and the ocean. They contribute a load of at least 20,000 kilograms per year of waste.

Contact lenses are sometimes essential for people’s daily functioning, so they’re not as easy to cut out as plastic bags or straws. Until we can find a better solution, they need to be discarded properly to avoid pollution.

Do you flush your contact lenses? Here’s why you should stop

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The Cost of Cheap Glasses/Contacts

Great little video on the real value of glasses and contact lenses by Canadian Association of Optometry Students! Poor fit of contact lenses is not always obvious when they “feel ok” on your eyes. That’s why it’s important to get them properly fitted by a licensed professional. It only takes one bad incident to cause permanent vision loss.
Good job CAOS! 😊

What is your vision worth?

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