Sleeping with contact lenses affects the cornea with inflammation

Washington DC

Two US researchers recommended that contact lens wearers be cautious, adhere to daily and long-term sterilization standards, and change old lenses in time to prevent corneal infection.

In their study, published in the annual issue of the medical journal Anals of Emergency Medicine, researchers John Fimling and Justin Baka warned that these lenses were sleepy and that they were very dangerous.

The researchers said that young people and adults are the latest to fall asleep without giving up their contact lenses, although the mere drowsiness of these lenses can cause inflammation of the cornea, indicating that "contact lenses for sleep can lead to infection and sometimes chronic lesions, One-third of those surveyed reported sleeping from time to time without giving up lenses. "