When wearing contact lenses, be sure to pay attention to the wearing time to avoid eye injury. (Picture/schematic diagram, flipped from pixabay)
For those who are used to wearing contact lenses, cleaning and disinfection are very important. Don’t let the contact lenses stick to the eyeballs for too long because of laziness. The health crisis behind it is beyond your imagination! A man in Hangzhou, mainland China, because he was greedy for the convenience of contact lenses and because he was lazy, once he put them on, he didn’t take them off for two months. I didn’t seek medical attention until I developed eye pain and congestion before the Chinese New Year. When I went to the hospital for an examination, I found that the contact lens I put on two months ago had “fitted” with the cornea of my eyeball, and the cornea was seriously infected.
According to comprehensive mainland media reports, this man surnamed Huang from Hangzhou is a novice baby daddy. Apart from going to work, he has been busy every day with breastfeeding, putting to sleep, and changing diapers for his newborn baby. And he himself has more than 600 degrees of myopia, because work and childcare work are too tiring, he often falls asleep as soon as his body hits the bed, and he doesn’t bother to take off his contact lenses, because wearing contact lenses, his eyes are not uncomfortable at all So he put it on and completely forgot to take it off.
Until the Lunar New Year days, Mr. Huang was busy visiting relatives and friends, and staying up late to take care of his children. He finally began to feel more and more uncomfortable in his eyes, not only inexplicable tears, pain, conjunctival congestion, and foreign body sensation. He finally remembered that it might be a problem with the contact lenses, and wanted to take them off and let his eyes rest for a few days. But at this moment, the lens of the contact lens seemed to “grow” on the eyeball, and it could not be removed no matter how much it was removed.
Later, Director Li Di, Deputy Director of the Department of Ophthalmology at Hangzhou No. 1 Hospital admitted this case and found that Mr. Huang’s cornea and lens had partially “fitted” because he hadn’t taken off his glasses for a long time! Later, the hospital carefully took out the contact lenses for Mr. Huang, and after a detailed examination, he was diagnosed with severe corneal infection.
Li Di said that Mr. Huang’s corneal damage was caused by the accumulation of time, and with the current corneal condition, it is no longer suitable to wear contact lenses in the short term. He also reminded that compared with the glasses that are usually worn on the face, contact lenses are a kind of foreign body to the eyes; and soft contact lenses are directly covered on the cornea, just like covering the eyeball with an airtight layer. When the cornea is covered by contact lenses for a long time, it means that it is in a state of hypoxia for a long time, which is very easy to cause corneal diseases. Remind the public that while enjoying the convenience of contact lenses, don’t forget to take them off regularly in order to protect the health of the window of the soul.