Always wash your hands before inserting or removing contact lenses. Use a non-moisturizing hand soap.

Clean your storage case daily, rinse out your storage case with warm to hot water (including the lids) after you insert your lenses. Even with good care, you should replace your storage case every three (3) months. Most eye infections come from a dirty/old storage case.


Use lubricating/re-wetting drops before you remove soft lenses. This helps prevent tearing of the lens. Soft lenses are very strong when they are wet but very brittle when they are dry.

When you are ready to remove your lenses, open the right or left side of the case first. Get into the habit of inserting your right lens first and removing your right lens first (or visa-versa). This helps you from switching your lenses.

Do not swim or use a hot tub with your soft lenses on, especially in a lake, river or the ocean. Soft lenses are roughly 50% water (or more) and they will absorb anything that it comes into contact with it, good or bad. If you swim in a pool, make sure that you wear goggles to keep the lens from washing out. Do not wear your lenses in a hot tub or sauna.

Upon lens removal, rub the lens between your fingertips or on your palm with the prescribed solution. Place the lens in the case and fill it up with solution. Before screwing on the lid, make sure the lens is covered with solution and away from the edges, make sure you don't over fill the storage case with solution.

For toric soft lens wearers: When removing your lenses, rotate the lens with one finger clockwise then remove it. The next night rotate it counter clockwise then remove it. This helps to help avoid stress tears of the lens.

Always remove your contact lenses and call your eye doctor if:
    * You develop unusual eye redness or pain.
    * You are sensitive to light, more than usual.
    * You develop unusually foggy or cloudy vision.

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