Daily Vs. Weekly Contact Lenses

There are many options to choose from when it comes to daily and weekly contact lenses. While there's not much difference between these two lens styles, it's important to know what kind of care is involved in wearing each style.

The Difference Between Daily and Weekly Contact Lenses

• The price is often the defining factor in determining whether you want to buy daily or weekly contact lenses. Of course, this also depends on the company, but in general, daily lenses are more expensive than weekly contact lenses.

Cleaning Weekly Contacts

• If you wear daily contact lenses, you don't have to clean them at all; you simply throw them away at the end of each day. With weekly contacts, you are forced to clean off eye residue and makeup if you want to stave off the possibility of bacteria and infection.

Are You A Better Candidate for Daily or Weekly Lenses?

• Oftentimes, children and adults with a hectic schedule are better candidates for daily lenses since the lenses require almost no care beyond inserting them every morning and taking them out at night. For those who don't want to keep several boxes of contacts around the house until they need to use them, weekly contacts are a better solution.

Main Benefits of Daily Contact Lenses

• There are more benefits to daily lenses than weekly lenses, simply because you're not required to purchase additional cleaning and conditioning solution to soak them in each night. Daily contacts are easy to insert, and according to Dr. Burt Dubow of AllAboutVision.com, a good-fitting lens will center itself on your eye, leaving you with almost no work to get it to fit right.

Main Benefits of Weekly Contact Lenses

• Weekly contact lenses are usually less expensive and less of a hassle than daily lenses, because you don't have to open up a new package each day; just keep them in a case overnight. And while they fit just as well as daily contacts, you might notice they lose their power on the sixth or seventh day once they begin to expire.