Best Contact Lenses

 Colour lenses don’t always change your vision: only the appearance of your eyes. They are a fashion item and are available in a wide range of colours, patterns and looks.

• Like normal contacts, they are soft plastic lenses that sit on the surface of the eye and can damage the surface if they are not properly fitted or used correctly. Most require daily cleaning and many can’t be left in the eye for long periods.

So if you buy some novelty or contact colour lenses, you need to follow these basic rules for your eye health and safety.

Not everyone can wear contact lenses, which means an eye doctor needs to check the shape and size of your eye to determine whether you can wear novelty contact lenses and what type.

• Always get a proper prescription from your eye doctor, even of you don’t normally wear contacts
• Do not wear contact colour lenses for long periods of time.
• Do not leave your lenses in while you sleep.
• Never share your lenses or borrow a friend’s lenses – you risk a serious infection, which can cause vision loss.
• Wash, rinse and dry your hands every time before you touch your lenses.
• Always put your lenses in before applying make-up and take them out before removing make-up.

• Your eyes are very sensitive and any infection in the eye can develop very quickly increasing the risk of vision loss.




• If they are left in too long the surface of the eye can become starved of oxygen, and an ulcer can develop, increasing the risk of infection.
• If a contact colour lens doesn’t fit your eye properly it can scratch the surface of the eye and cause injury or infection.

If your eyes become red, irritated, sore or your vision changes while wearing your lenses, take them out straight away and visit your eye doctor.

• There have been a number of cases where people have left novelty lenses in overnight or shared them with friends and they developed permanent damage to their eyes.

• Novelty contact lenses need to be cleaned, rinsed and disinfected after every use – just like sight-changing contact lenses.
• Never ever use saliva to wet your lenses or put the lenses in your mouth. Saliva carries germs.
• Use only a proper contact lens solution recommended by an optometrist for cleaning and lubricating your lenses. These cleaning solutions are available from your optometrist or local pharmacy.

Wearing contact colour lenses can be fun and make your eyes look very different for a while. Wearing them without proper advice and handling can make a difference to your health for a lot longer and that’s not fun!

Research shows that around 15% of children under 15 and about 25% of 16-19 year olds require some sort of vision correction. But only about 10% of these kids ever wear and experience the best contact lenses.

There is often no proper reason why young children can’t consider contacts, as their eyes can easily put up with contact lenses at an early age. Some times your eye doctor may advise against them, but children are generally very adaptable to new experiences and rarely have a problem with applying or removing contacts on their own.

New lens technology has increased the options for kids and parents, so the decision on whether your child is suitable for contacts may be more to do with their personality as most children, quickly accept the responsibility for Contacts, providing they are mature enough.

And with the best contact lenses available as a daily disposable lens, you can forget about all the cleaning solutions, removing the prime fear of eye health, when children use contacts.

Are coloured contact suitable for Children?

What’s important here is getting a proper prescription from your eye doctor so you can look over some of the best contact lenses available on line. This is so important and it’s critical for you and your kids to avoid the lenses sold at gas stations, salons and convenience stores as they can damage your eyes.

And of course the best contact lenses can do wonders for your child’s self-esteem, as many kids feel better about their appearance, which will also improve their self confidence.

Sport can be a good starting point giving your kids the obvious benefit and freedom of contact lenses

And it doesn’t have to be a permanent decisions as you can easily go back to glasses and try contacts a few years later.

So why not start by organizing a visit to your local eye doctor?