Tips for Total Comfort
 

Disposable, extended-wear, soft, hard, gas-permeable. Whatever kind of contact lenses you wear, it's still a foreign object in your eye. So it only makes sense that to avoid problems--like redness, irritation and infection--your eyes need special attention. You already know that. But what you may not know is that being female can create a unique set of problems.

Hormonal changes that occur as a result of pregnancy and menopause can make your perfect-wear lenses suddenly less than perfect. And some ingredients found in makeup and hair spray can stray into your lens-covered eyes and cause infections and can lead to temporary impair vision. The chemicals in hair spray coat your lenses as they coat your hair, and if you sprayed hair spray on your car windshield, it would be hard to see through.

And then there are universal problems. Almost everyone who wears lenses has experienced dryness, redness or irritation from a piece of grit trapped under a lens.