Lens Care Tips

Caring for your contact lenses is important to the health of your eyes. Lenses start to feel uncomfortable when protein deposits form on the lens' surface. These deposits, found naturally in the tear fluid of your eyes, accumulate on the lens over a period of weeks and months.

To ensure that contact lenses give their wearers optimum performance and superior comfort, CooperVision developed a convenient planned replacement lens program. CooperVision's Preference? quarterly planned replacement lenses and Hydrasoft? Options quarterly planned replacement lenses, manufactured from a material that resists deposit build up, can be worn for up to three months without enzyming. The material's deposit-resistant properties keep your lenses cleaner and your vision sharp. Frequency? monthly planned replacement lenses can be worn for up to four weeks without enzymatic cleaning.
Preference, Frequency, and Hydrasoft Options planned replacement lenses are fit exclusively by your eye care professional at regularly planned visits to ensure good eye health. With periodic checkups, planned replacement justifiably is considered the healthiest soft contact lens option available.
Whether you're wearing a CooperVision planned replacement lens or a conventional lens, you should always follow your eye care professional's prescribed cleaning regimen. Failure to do so could result in red eye, pain, light sensitivity, tearing, or sudden changes in vision.

Did You Know?

Are contacts a good fit for you?
Most people with vision conditions have no problem wearing contact lenses. And, with new materials, replacement schedules and lens care technologies, wearing contact lenses has never been easier.
However, you may have difficulty wearing lenses, if:

• your eyes are irritated by allergies.
• your work environment hosts large quantities of dust or chemicals.
• you suffer from uncontrollable diabetes, severe arthritis in your hands, or an overactive thyroid.
• Your eyes are overly dry due to medications or pregnancy.

See your eye care professional to find out if contact lenses are right for you.
Children need regular eye exams
Of children between the ages of 5 and 12, one in four suffer from an undiagnosed vision problem that effects their educational performance. Because children often have no way of knowing if their vision is poor, it is much harder to detect the problem. It is recommended that all children have their eyes examined at age 4. If there is a family history of eye conditions, it is recommend that their eyes be examined by the age of three. Early detection is the key to good vision and vision problems often respond favorable during the growth and development of a child's visual system.

Signs that your child may have a vision problem

• Squinting, rubbing or blinking the eyes a lot
• Having trouble seeing the blackboard at school
• Using a finger as a place mark when reading
• Holding head at an awkward angle when reading
• Closing or covering one eye to focus
• Holding reading materials close to face
• Having red or crusty eyes

Adults need regular eye exams, too

Ideally, you should have your eyes examined every year. Routine eye exams can detect early signs of vision conditions, allowing for fast treatment of most problems. Eye exams can also reveal serious and often times, hidden medical conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, inflammations and infections.
A typical eye exam
Quick and painless, routine eye exams ensure good, healthy vision. Before your exam, your eye care professional will ask you about your health history and your family history, whether you've experienced any eye trouble, and ask you to describe your work and lifestyle. Then, he/she will test your eyes: checking for eye movement, peripheral vision and color blindness, administering a glaucoma test and determining the health of your optic nerve and retina.
Computer use and your eyes
Many in our workforce spend the majority of their work day in front of a computer screen. And, nearly 90% of those working at a video display terminal experienced some form of vision problems as a result. Symptoms that are related to computer use are:

• Difficulty focusing after working at a computer
• Eye strain or fatigue 
• Headaches
• Dry, itchy and/or irritated eyes

There are also environmental factors that increase computer-related eye strain:

• Bright lights in your peripheral vision can be distracting.
• Reflected light on your computer screen can cause a glare, decreasing the contrast of the screen character.