Sleeping in contact lenses overnight increases the risk of bacterial eye infections. — Whalespan
Sleeping in contact lenses overnight increases the risk of bacterial eye infections.
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“the other thing to be really responsible about is sleeping in them overnight because overnight when your eyelids are closed of course now you're getting even less oxygen to the surface of your eye and actually most bacteria especially many of the Infectious bacteria to our bodies and to the surface of our eye are actually bacteria that don't really like oxygen and so we've got a low risk of getting bacterial infections on the surface of our eye but if we use contacts too much don't clean them or sleep in them overnight when our eyelids are closed and now there's even less oxygen kind of helping keep the surface more more clean if you will uh that increases the risk a lot”
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