What Happens If You Leave Your Contacts in for Too Long?
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[INTRO] [What happens if you leave your contacts in for too long?] If you wear contact lenses, your doctor probably told you not to wear them for too long, and there are a lot of good reasons for that. A student in England for instance, tried to take her contacts out with dry eyes after leaving them in for 10 hours and ended up ripping off part of her cornea. Another student in Taiwan... Why is it always students?... left contacts in for six months which created the perfect environment for bacteria and amoebas to burrow into her eye. Ugh. Just got to get the nice outside-of-your-eyes lenses. These are good. So even though contacts are generally safe to wear, they do come with lots of biological risks if you don't follow your doctor's instr...
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[INTRO] [What happens if you leave your contacts in for too long?] If you wear contact lenses, your doctor probably told you not to wear them for too long, and there are a lot of good reasons for that. A student in England for instance, tried to take her contacts out with dry eyes after leaving them in for 10 hours and ended up ripping off part of her cornea. Another student in Taiwan... Why is it always students?... left contacts in for six months which created the perfect environment for bacteria and amoebas to burrow into her eye. Ugh. Just got to get the nice outside-of-your-eyes lenses. These are good. So even though contacts are generally safe to wear, they do come with lots of biological risks if you don't follow your doctor's instr...
