Throw away Contact Lenses when Having a Cold

As the season changes, it is the time that all kinds of diseases to follow hard at heel, and the most common one is cold. To myopia sufferers，now they need to pay special attention to their health. Especially for contact lenses wearers, once they catch cold, it absolutely that they cannot wear contact lenses. Some German medicine experts suggest that once people who wear contact lenses suffer from cold, it is best for them switch to frame glasses.

The experts say that influenza sufferers always carry a large number of bacteria and virus which can easily be brought into eyes when wearers use their hands to put on or take off their contact lenses. Moreover, influenza sufferers are often accompanied with slight retina inflammation. Thus wearing contact lenses will make inflammation more serious.

The experts also say that many medicines such as anti-cold remedy, anti-cough remedy and pain-relieving medicine contain the ingredient of inhibiting tears. Such ingredient can reduce the volume of tear secretion, so that make contact lenses excessive dry and reduce its transparency, and then affects vision and makes eye uncomfortable. In addition, a number of hormones, antibiotics, antihistamines and antidepressants also have the effect of reducing tear secretion. Hence, it is quite harmful to wear contact lenses while catching the cold.

Consequently, experts advise that when people are sick, they should explain their present situation to the doctor, make sure possible side effects of the drugs, and promptly turn to frame glasses to avoid hurting your eyes.

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