Help on How to Put in Contact Lenses

Many individuals find glasses to be awkward. Instead, they opt for contact lenses. They usually insert the contact lenses each morning and remove them each night for cleaning. If you have never worn contacts before, you will need to learn the proper way to put the lenses in. If you don't, the lenses could pop back out again. You may also end up putting them in backwards, which will cause your vision to be blurry.

Things You'll Need

• Antibacterial soap
• Saline solution

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Instructions

• 1

  Wash your hands before handling your contacts. You don't want to take the chance of getting dirt on your contacts or germs in your eyes.

• 2

  Take out your right contact lens first. Obrig Contact Lenses recommends you always start with the same eye so that you never get your contacts mixed up.

• 3

  Place the lens in the palm of your hand to make sure it isn't inside out. Look at the rim of the lens. If the lens rim is round and not sharp looking, you have your contacts the right way. If the lens is inside out, the rim will appear sharp.

• 4

  Squirt a little saline on your contact lens to rinse it off. Then set the lens on your pointer finger.

• 5

  Draw your bottom eyelid down with your middle finger. If you blink easily then hold the top eyelid open with your free hand.

• 6

  Look up and place the contact directly on the eye. Once it is in place, let go of your eyelids. Look toward your nose. This will send the contact directly over your cornea.

• 7

  Wash your hands again and repeat the steps to get the contact for your left eye in.