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Contact lens fell on the floor. Will what I did give me an eye infection?
Hi! So just this morning I dropped my contact on the floor of my bathroom and I picked it up and rubbed it with solution and put it in my eye. Could this give me an eye infection? What should I do if I drop my contact lens again? Thank you guys!
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You did the right thing. As long as you rinse it off, you have nothing to worry about. I've had contact lenses for 15 years and I drop them all the time. I've never gotten an infection and sometimes I don't even rinse them off.
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When a person wears contacts, there's always a very slight chance of getting an infection from practically anything out there. I have contacts and have dropped them on the sink counter or in the sink. If you think that area has less germs that the floor, think again. I was in a class for caregivers and shown what the bathroom sink and our hands looked like after we'd washed. Under black light, there were germs everywhere. We were all actually pretty horrified and grossed out.
If you clean and rinse your contact several times before putting it on you should be fine.
I tended to get infections sometimes more from my finger not being as clean as I thought, from pollen or dust that had some germs on them and got in my eye or from mascara and eye makeup, even the non allergenic good for contact wearers. Our mascara tubes harbor many germs from our own body/eyelids that will start to grow in the mascara tubes with continued use and at one point multiply enough to infect the eye should any makeup break off and enter the eye. THAT was my biggest culprit. I stopped wearing makeup totally and now its seldom I have an eye infection, usually only with a very bad head cold and that maybe once every 3/4 years.
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