Swimming and contacts etc?!

Swimming and contacts etc?

Hear there are deseases you can get from contact lens and swimming but what about rain or the shower etc.


Have head people suggest goggles or diving masks but really.


Say if you were going to go sufing you could not leave the hotel, and walk down the street in your mask or goggles and when you go swimming most of the time your goggles are off. You only put them on when you are aswimming underwater or face in water.


And what if at an outdoor pool you look a complete dork of you are walking around the pool with your gogles or diving mask on.

Soft contacts Ive used before didn't come out and with disposibvles can you through them out after.?

2 months ago
Its fine if scuba daiving as then you will have your mask on all the time.


But like you are going to do that down newquay high street and all the time you are on the beach outside the water

Its really not a good idea to swim with contacts or even have tap water touch your contact lenses like when you have a shower or wash your face. If you do wear disposables, I would take them out right after swimming and throw them out do not finish wearing them for the rest of the day.

Soft contacts will absorb anything they can! If you swim while wearing contacts or even have tap water get in your eyes you can get an eye infection called Acanthamoeba. "Acanthamoeba is a microbe that is very common in the environment, including in tap water. It has two forms: the trophozoite and the cyst. The infective form is the trophozoite, which can change into a cyst and survive a long time. These trophozoites and cysts can stick to the surface of your contact lenses and then infect your eye."
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/acantham...

Apparently this infection is difficult to treat and can cause blindness so i think its best to prevent it and not wear contacts while swimming.
These links have more info.... check them out :)