How to Take Contacts Out

Wearing contact lenses helps solve some problems, but it may create others. Though contacts are much easier to maintain and wear than glasses, it can take some practice and patience to figure out how to put them in and remove them.

Things You'll Need

• Antibacterial soap and water
• Drying towel
• Contacts
• Contact lens case
• Saline solution

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Instructions

• 1

  Wash your hands thoroughly with antibacterial soap and warm water. Dry them.

• 2

  With your non-dominant hand, carefully and lightly hold open one of your eyes with the index finger and thumb.

• 3

  With the index finger and thumb of your other hand, carefully lean toward the mirror and locate the contact lens with these fingers. Make sure not to use your nails at all.

• 4

  Grasp the contact gently and squeeze so your finger and thumb meet, then remove your hand from your eye with the contact between your fingers.

• 5

  Set the contact lens in the proper case with the saline solution. Repeat this procedure with your other eye.