Make your own saline solution for contact lenses
You want to stay with a friend and wear your contact lenses. Only the saline solution for storage is nowhere to be found. Before you do this yourself, you should inform yourself about the risks!
What you need:
- Knowledge of risks
- Pharmacy emergency service
- Salt and boiling water
Make your own saline solution: not safe!
- Every contact lens wearer knows the problem. Suddenly the saline solution is empty or you forgot it at home.
- It actually sounds so simple: after all, saline solution is little more than water and salt. The crucial difference between plain salt water and special saline solution for contact lenses is that, unlike tap water, it is sterile.
- So if you put your lenses in non-sterile water and put them in yours the next day eye dangerous infections can develop. There are various bacteria in tap water that can attack your eyes. Conjunctivitis or even a severe infection that can lead to blindness cannot be ruled out.
- Better to call the pharmacy emergency service. They will tell you which pharmacy in your area is on emergency service and also open overnight. Here you can buy the saline solution for your contact lenses and do not have to make them yourself.
Make the saline for contact lenses yourself
- If there is no other option but to make the saline solution yourself, you will need a liter of water and nine grams of salt. The salt should be fine-grained and iodine-free.
- Now bring the water to a boil. The heat kills most of the bacteria and it becomes almost germ-free.
- Now stir the salt into the boiling water. Until it has completely dissolved.
- Let the water cool and put it in a contact lens container. Without aids, of course, as it would otherwise come into contact with new bacteria.
After ten to twelve hours of wearing, you should take out your contact lenses and ...
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