Why do contact lenses hurt my eyes? – Dr. Sirish Nelivigi

The contact lenses can hurt your eye one, if the contact lenses are unclean, two, if you have slept with your contact lenses on your eyes which you are not supposed to do and three, they can hurt you when you are prone for allergies and there is a contact lens intolerance. It can also hurt you if you have dryness in the eye or infections in the eye. So you need to take care of this one by one. You need to keep your contact lenses very neat and clean and clean them well with the contact lens solution so that the dust particles and other contaminants in the contact lens should be washed up. You shouldn’t be sleeping with the contact lens on to your eye as that will hamper the oxygen entry to the cornea and this and this can cause certain surface changes on the eye which can cause pain. Third, you need to be careful about the dry eye which certain people have which can cause pain to the eye because as such the contacts itself will be absorbing some amount of tears from your eye and in presence of dry eye this gets exaggerated. You also need to be careful about the allergy certain people have. Some people who are prone for allergies see that the contact lens allergy usually tens to happen in such people. Here you need to visit the ophthalmologist and then seek some treatment for the allergy and this will help you wear the contact lenses for a longer time without having much pain.