WARNING: These Comments are real and may be disturbing to some viewers.
“I don’t usually wear contact lenses, and these are costume, so I don’t need to get them from an eye doctor or get my eyes checked.”
“I once got contact lenses from a gas station in Louisiana.”
“I mean, really, between you and me, wearing these costume on-line contacts just for a few hours, is ok, right…. between you and me?!?”
AHHHHH!!!! These comments scare me more than the thought of Michael Meyers popping out of my closet. Ok, that kind of scares me, too… BUT, the thought of that keeps me up less at night than the thought of people using and wearing poor quality contact lenses. Why, you ask?!
Contact lenses are a medical device.
All contact lenses have to allow a certain amount of oxygen to prevent the cornea from swelling and developing new vessel growth that can cause permanent scarring and affect vision. Even wearing these for a few hours, heaven forbid sleeping in them, can cause serious problems.
We haven’t even touched on the little microbes that could be lurking on the lens, in the solution, or even on your eye, that now the non-breathable contact lens traps on the surface of your eye for HOURS! Even if your hands are clean, a splash of tap water could be enough to contaminate the lenses. Some of these little microbial boogers are like real life zombies – they spread fast, are hard to kill, and seem to come back from the dead.
Think twice before purchasing “costume” contact lenses from a non medical retailer... gas stations included!!!
Just because you're a monster for Halloween, doesn't mean your eyes have to look like it the next day!
