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Common misconceptions/myths about wearing lenses
Myth: Contact lenses get stuck behind your eyes.
Fact: They most certainly do not! It's physically impossible for a lens to get stuck "behind" your eyeball. A thin membrane which covers the eye is connected to the inside of the eyelid, so your lens can't move from the front of your eye to the back. True, the lens might get stuck under your eyelid – but there's never a risk of it ending up behind your eye. You can always get the lens back again.
Myth: The lens can grow into your eyeball.
Fact: There are loads of myths about lenses that have "got stuck" and grown into the eye of some friend of a friend of a friend. But this has never happened, so panic not!
Myth: Looking after lenses is a pain.
Fact: Looking after lenses is simple and straightforward, and it's getting simpler. There are lots of different lens variants: some you can wear for an entire month without having to take them out and clean them, others you can take out and bin when you go to bed at night and then just use a new lens in the morning.
Myth: Contact lenses hurt.
Fact: Soft contact lenses – and the hard ones as well (the few that are still available, anyway) – are all comfortable and easy to use. Your eyes will get used to lenses really quickly, and you'll soon forget you're even wearing them. You can get used to them in just a couple of days.
Myth: Contact lenses can fall out at any time, and they're easy to lose.
Fact: Not at all. If you're using the right lenses for you, they'll remain firmly in position. In the old days, when everyone wore hard lenses, those ones could fall out; but this hardly ever happens with soft lenses.
Myth: Teenagers shouldn't wear contact lenses.
Fact: Both children and teenagers can wear lenses these days. Of course, looking after your lenses is important, but these days lenses are a simple and excellent alternative to glasses. Age isn't really important, as long as you're responsible. Daily disposable lenses are perfect for children and young people because they don't demand much in the way of care or cleaning.
Myth: People over 40 shouldn't wear contact lenses.
Fact: There's no age limit as such. There are bifocal lenses, for example, which are ideal for correcting age-related macular degeneration. A lot of members of the elder generation have waved a fond farewell to their reading glasses and wear lenses instead now.
Myth: You can get all kind of eye infection from lenses.
Fact: Eye infections are often down to poor lens and case care, or simple laziness. If you know you're going to cut corners, we'd recommend daily disposable lenses (single use lenses) because you don't need to clean or store them. All you have to do is make sure your hands are clean when you insert your daily disposables. This is all you need to do to make sure your eyes stay healthy.
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