the number one reason why people stop wearing contact lenses is because of dry
eyes in fact i took a poll asking why you stopped wearing contact lenses
68 said because of dryness so i thought i'd make a specific video about that topic
this is the top five best contact lenses for dry eyes so let's focus in
hey howdy everybody this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy with the show that keeps your eyes healthy
and your vision clear and today we're talking about the contacts where you'll have the best
shot at wearing them if you're dealing with dry eyes now a lot of times what i tell my patients
is that if you're already dealing with dry eye symptoms wearing contacts kind of kicks it into
the next level it amplifies those symptoms at the same time if you don't really have dry eye
symptoms normally wearing contacts might kick you over the edge and make you have dry eye
symptoms so i wanted to go over the context where my patients have had better success wearing these
contact lenses compared to other contacts or maybe they haven't even been able to wear other contacts
we'll start with number five on the list and work our way up to the number one ranked contact lens
for dry eyes so for number five i'm gonna cheat a little bit and i'm gonna group monthly contacts
for the rank number five and as you can imagine the next four are actually daily contact lenses
because they really do work the best for dry eyes but i wanted to at least mention monthly lenses
that may work for your dry eyes the top three monthly contacts that i found the best work for my
patients would be accuvu vita contact lens bausch and lomb ultra and cooper vision biofinity now
let me just touch up on the pros of each one of these monthly contact lenses. Acuvue Vita contacts
are patterned after the common two week Acuvue Oasys lens it also has that infinity edge design
making it very comfortable to wear you can barely feel the edge of these contacts it also has
class one uv protection and also has astigmatism versions as well so if you have astigmatism this
is a good option fashion alarm ultra contacts are also a very good option for people with dry eyes
it's designed to actually keep their water content up to 16 hours of wear time so very good it also
has very great optics specifically at night time ultra contact lenses also come in astigmatism
versions as well as multi-focal versions as well as multi-focal astigmatism versions so you
have a lot to work with in this type of contact cooper vision biofinity contacts have actually
been out for a while now but it's still one of the most breathable contacts out on the market
and that's that dk value that eye doctors are always talking about so that makes this contact
very healthy for your eyes they actually came out with a specific design called biofinity energys
which is designed for people that are using computers or staring at screens all day long
the design is to make it so it won't dry out when you're not blinking as much while staring
at the screens so very good for people that have dry eyes biofinity contacts also come in toric
or astigmatism versions for the contacts and are also available in multifocal contacts as well
with monthly contacts the battle that you have there is you're trying to keep them comfortable
towards the end of the month as you're wearing them so you're dealing with the right contact lens
solution sometimes wrong contact lens solutions can also induce dryness you're also dealing with
deposits that might get onto the surface of the contact that can mess with the wet ability of the
contact and also cause dryness that's why moving into a daily contact lens might be the way to go
because you're eliminating all of those issues you don't have to deal with contact lens solutions you
don't have to deal with any deposits that might get under the contacts because you're getting a
fresh new contact lens every single day now if you are dealing with dry eyes and you're kind
of curious about dry eye treatments and dry symptoms make sure that you check out my dry
eye playlist i'll put a link up there as well as in the description below now the daily contacts
i'm going to go over are the more premium daily contact lenses they are the best coming in at
number four is the bausch and lomb infuse daily contact lens and fuse actually came out in the
year 2020 last year and so it's actually one of the newer contacts out on the market and a
lot of time and a lot of research went into the development of this contact to figure out how
it could work for people that might have dry eyes or discomfort issues with other types of contacts
and i've actually had a lot of success with patients that have worn this contact lens it
also has uv blocking in those contact lenses so that's a plus but definitely an option
could work for you very well coming in at number three is another accuvue product it's the accuvue
oasys one day contact lens this lens is very very comfortable comes with the hydra lux technology
that makes it very wettable and also very comfortable for people that have dry eyes it's
also available in astigmatism versions as well so it's a big plus for people that have astigmatism
and are also dealing with dry eyes as well it has uv blocking protection in there and so this is a
very very good option a lot of my patients like this lens now normally when we're talking about
a premium daily contact lens it also comes at a premium cost now these lenses are not cheap
they're definitely some of the more expensive contact lenses out on the market but i wanted
to put an option in there that might not be as expensive as some of these premium lenses and that
is number two the precision one contact lenses now the precision one contact lenses actually share
some of the technology with the number one contact lens that we'll talk about in a minute and that's
in the design of the surface of the contact in the middle is the actual plastic the silicone hydrogel
of the contact and on the surface of the contact the surface that's actually touching your eyeball
and the other surface that's touching your eyelid is actually made of mostly water so it's very very
very comfortable to the eyes it's made with a smart surface technology and it's also made
with a low modulus meaning that it will retain and hold its shape very very well and so new contact
lens wearers actually do great with this type of contact because it doesn't flip-flop everywhere it
actually holds its shape it's a little bit easier to get out of the eye and put in the eye because
actually feels and looks like a contact it's not just folding all over your finger or flopping
around everywhere the number one best contact lens for dry eyes in my experience with patients
is daily's total one daily total one came out in 2013 so it's been out for a while now but
what makes it very unique is the water gradient technology the water gradient is something that
no other contact has and similar to the precision one contacts the core of the contact is made out
of that plastic that silicone hydrogel and when you get to the surface of the contact it's nearly
a hundred percent water i don't even understand how that works but what's actually touching your
eyeball and touching your eyelids is almost 100 percent water and so it's very very slick very
very soothing to the eye you can barely feel the contact when you put it in there very comfortable
the best contact for people that have dry eyes for sure now the one thing that can make it tricky is
that it's very very slick and almost slimy because it has that water gradient on the surface of the
contact and so it can be a little tricky to handle putting it on your finger putting it
in your eye but especially towards the end of the day it is really tricky to get out because it's so
slimy and slick and so you want your fingers to be completely dry to get that contact out of
there that's the one drawback is that it might be a little trickier to handle compared to the
other contact lenses especially the precision one contact which has that low modulus daily's total
one has a multi-focal version and rumor has it that they might be coming out with a torque or
an astigmatism version as well but it hasn't yet now there are a bunch of contact lenses out there
and some contacts work better for different people so don't feel bad if i didn't put your favorite
contact lens on this list i understand some people like certain contacts for me the only contact that
i could ever wear was actually the biofinity contact even over some daily lenses and so i
i was a little weird so i totally understand there are certain contacts that just work the
best for certain people now one thing that i want to mention there is a hard contact lens
that has kind of been deemed the dry eye contact and that is a scleral lens and i actually did a
specific video about scleral lenses and how they might help you with your dry eyes i'll also put a
link up there as well as in the description below if you've tried any of these contacts
make sure that you leave a comment down below i'm kind of curious to hear how your experience
went with these contacts hey thanks for watching the video make sure you hit that like button and
subscribe for my future videos coming out i'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, focusing on you and
your eyes stay focused check out my other videos right there and i'll see you in the next video