Proper Contact Lens Storage: Maintaining Lens Health & Hygiene

Storing contact lenses in saline solution is very important to the cleanliness and function of contact lenses. All contact lenses, except for daily lenses and overnight lenses, must be stored in saline solution or a multipurpose solution. Saline solution cleans the lenses and prepares them to be reused. The lenses must remain in saline solution for a minimum of four hours to be effective. You may also want to consider multipurpose solution for storing and cleaning your contact lenses.

Things You'll Need

• Contact lenses
• Storage case
• Saline solution

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Instructions

Storing Your Contact Lenses in Saline Solution

• 1

  Fill both sides of the storage case halfway with saline solution. It is common to receive a storage case from your eye doctor with the saline solution, or with the purchase of contact lenses.

• 2

  Take one of the contact lenses out of your left or right eye, and place it into the storage container, paying attention to the side of the storage container where you placed it. Repeat for the other eye.

• 3

  Place the covers on the storage container. Make sure to match the left cover with the left lens and the right cover with the right lens.