so why dont my eyes hurt and get all sticky ect ect.. people complain about these side effects from sleeping with the contacts for just 1 night. i sleep with them for 1 week. or more. i know it could be bad. but i havent experienced anything negative, (yet at least) could it be that some people just can keep contacts on overnight and its safe to them? any other info you wanna add go ahead.
2006-07-29 21:22:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
You are taking a big risk with something that is not replaceable. Compare contact lenses with a sponge - you can use it for a while but eventually you know it has absorbed some germs that aren't coming out - so you replace them. That's one of the top reasons you have limits on how long you wear your contact lenses. As these things build up in your lenses, they become less permeable to oxygen. This decrease in oxygen can cause corneal neovascularization and make your corneal epithelium weaker and therefore, more susceptible to infection. Daily contact lenses are designed to be the least permeable to oxygen (let the least in compared to other lenses). This is increasing your chance of developing neovasculatization and infections.
You don't go without brushing your teeth because you don't want a cavity (at least I hope), don't abuse your contact lenses because you don't want an eye infection.
2006-07-30 06:42:21 · answer #1 · answered by eyegirl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not healthy for your eyes to leave your contacts on overnight or for a week at a time as the eyeball needs oxygen to retain good "eye health" and contacts prevent that from happening. You may not experience problems right now but you could be setting yourself up for some big problems later on down the road.
The same way that someone who smokes will not have any "ill effects" for years and years....and then one day starts to cough and finds out they have lung cancer and they die.
2006-07-29 21:28:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely no longer. Sleeping with contacts in places you at a far larger hazard for eye illness, to not point out the contacts might be extra elaborate to take away the following day. It'll additionally harm like hell, and you can ordinarily have a giant headache for the relaxation of the day.
2016-08-28 15:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your eyes need oxygen, so wearing the contacts for so long is actually hurting them in the long run. Even the new contacts that are designed for overnight wear should be taken out fairly often if at all possilble. Let your eyes breathe man.
2006-07-29 21:27:29 · answer #4 · answered by Joey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, I used to wear contacts as well but was involved in a head on collision where my eyes were scratched from the broken windsheild. I tried sleeping with them in a few times and my eyes got sticky and red. The optomotrist told me that my eyes weren't getting the oxygen they needed to stay healthy.
2006-07-29 21:27:51 · answer #5 · answered by donovan49_e71 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may not feel it but you are hurting your eyes. Like the first poster said, it needs oxygen. Talk to your eye doctor about it. It has less to do with discomfort and more to do with blood vessels growing in your eyes.
Since your eyes need oxygen eventually bloodvessels will grow if you keep the contacts in too long. The blood vessels will transport oxygen to your eye cells. But then they will also be visble to other people.
2006-07-29 22:01:57 · answer #6 · answered by ATerribleIdea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This topic is worth people's attention
2016-08-23 03:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by patria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well my boyfriend has contacts they r just like urs but if ur eyes r dry like always dry then it means it would probably hurt but i guess ur r like a boyfriend and ur eyes r moist
2006-07-29 21:27:44 · answer #8 · answered by animallover9000131 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible for sure
2016-07-27 05:27:58 · answer #9 · answered by Cortney 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋