Instead of contact lens solution can I use distilled water and salt tablets?

Question

someone told me that i can dissolved salt tablets and distilled water and mix them to become contact lens solution. Will that work? Is it safe?

Answer 1

This used to be done, and there were products available to produce the correct concentration of saline.
But the saline has no sterilising power, and this was done in the context boiling the lenses every night to kill bacteria.

Heat treatment was popular for many years, as it avoided reactions to the chemicals then used as preservatives.
But boiling did make protein deposition on the lenses much worse.
So, unless you are planning to boil your lenses, saline alone is utterly inadequate to prevent bacteria multiplying on the lenses.

Answer 2

We used to do that amny years ago when we litterally boiled the lenses. This killed anything that was on the lense or in the home made saline. However, we do not reccomend doing that anymore becuase of the risk factors of infection. It is better to used a solution reccomended by your doctor that prescribed your lenses. That way you are getting the reccomendation for what is best for you and your type of lenses.

Answer 3

No it is not safe and you should never do this. You could wind up with a nasty infection. Use the solution your eye doc recommended and change your contact lens case every month for a new one.

Answer 4

thats very dangerous ,becoz u will get an infection mostly fungus,,the contact lenses solution is sterilized ,,,its not the ingredients only ,the sterilization is more important ,dont try such idea ...

Answer 5

no no no this is very old and dangerous