Is it okay to wear contact lenses in water? The pool, at the beach or lake, and even in the shower? These are pretty common topics that pop up in eye sight and vision Facebook groups all the time. So what is the correct protocol for contact lenses and water?
Now that things are heating up again here in Australia, I thought it a great time to talk contact lenses and water, specifically wearing them while swimming. Living near the beach and with two kids that almost live in the pool during Summer, there’s a whole lot of swimming about to happen. As you might know from Dane’s story, he wears a rigid gas permeable contact lens just in the one eye. Being in one eye only, we’re fortunate that when goes surfing or swimming we simply take his contact lens out as he can operate with one eye. Not great for his peripheral vision obviously but he gets by.