in this video I'm gonna show you how to remove hard contact lenses easily! These
are hard RGP or also known as rigid gas permeable lenses and there's three
cool ways to remove them let's take a look
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this video is part of a series about specialty hard contact lenses and if you
want to learn a little bit more about them then I will include that link to
that entire video series in the description below before we jump right
into just want to say that it is best for you to have already gone through a
fitting course and how to put them in and take out contact lenses at your
local eye clinic or optical because they're gonna give you the hands-on
training that you need in order to be really successful with contact lenses
this video is really just to support you if you're having a difficult time now
the first step is always whenever you're handling contact lenses you need to wash
your hands first and then dry them completely because little microbes live
in our hands and we want to make sure that we don't get those under our
contacts and then into our eyes now to actually show you the three different
ways of how you can remove hard RGP contact lenses I'm gonna first have to
put an RGP contact lens into my own eye and I'm it traditionally not a hard
contact lens wear so I'm gonna cheat a little bit and I'm gonna actually put a
numbing drop into my eye just to make it a little bit more comfortable so that I
can actually show you the appropriate way sometimes in the clinic to help fit
specialty lenses we do use some of these numbing drops us to make people more
comfortable ultimately you don't want to actually get these drops and use them
repeatedly over and over because people who do that and abuse this actually can
melt the cornea there's a bonus tip for ya - don't abuse numbing drops
now that we got it in let's go over how to take them out first a quick pro tip
is that if you're actually taking your contact lenses out over a sink or in a
bathroom somewhere I think it is best to actually use some sort of a towel and
actually place it in the sink over the drain that way if you take your contact
lens out and it falls into the sink it's not gonna actually slip down the drain
because if it does you're out of a contact lens now the first method that I
prefer is actually using one finger on the top eyelid and then using another
finger on the lower eyelid and you basically kind of pinch a little bit
underneath the lens from both the top and the bottom and that can actually
kind of push out the lens from the eye so we're gonna try it right here I'm
gonna get in closer
there we go so I got it out that took me about two tries there but it came out
pretty easily not actually put the lens back in and will demonstrate that one
more time okay I'm gonna hold the top eyelid in the bottom eyelid here and the
lens just pops right out now for the second method is called the blink method
and it this way a lot of people prefer it and they find it very easy while some
people have more challenge with it and I believe it has to do with your lid
tension if you have Bernie tight taut eyelids then you might find this easier
to remove the lenses this way where somebody like myself my lids can be
manipulated pretty easily so it gets a little challenging what we're gonna do
is we're gonna give it a try and if I mess it up we're gonna keep trying and
trying until we get it right and hopefully I'll get it within the first
two tries okay so I like to look downward a little bit with this method I
find that gravity helps it a little bit but you touch the top eyelid here the
corner of the bottom eyelid here to the corner you pull your eyelid really tight
and you blink and it pops out I actually got that on the first try yeah okay
we're gonna try that again just as another example so yes you grab the top
eyelid pull it here to the side really tight and then forcefully blink and oh
it's actually actually got it on the second try too! sweet! again some people
find the blinking method to be the easiest I personally just struggle with
it but yes that's how you do it hey are you getting value out of this so far
if so smash that like button for me thanks okay now the third method which
is a way that I personally like to remove lenses
however it's not for everybody and probably most doctors prefer everybody
to learn how to remove contact lenses with their hands alone but this little
device is called a DMV and it's actually a little plunger that can
actually be used to suction onto a hard contact lens and then just easily pull
it off the eye the reason why most doctors don't like people learning how
to use the DMV right away is the first method is because you are putting
another object onto the eye and if you miss the eye or don't do it correctly
you could actually be putting suction onto the eye and that could actually
hurt the eye so it is important that you learn how to use this correctly now most
of these two plunger devices you can of course buy directly from your
my doctor some include it as a kit whenever you're getting fit for
specialty contact lenses otherwise you can certainly buy them in a big bulk
supply buying online off of Amazon I think it's only just a few dollars but
when using a DMV plunger like this you do want to wet the plunger just a little
bit with some disinfecting solution or saline and then you actually want to
place it on the lower 1/3 of the contact lens and then when you pull off you pull
slightly up and away and then the lens should just lift off easily there you go
are you able to see how that's on the lower 1/3 of that contact lens that's
about perfect now whether you are using the first second or the third method to
take out your contact lenses remember that contact lenses are medical devices
and it's very important to listen to your eye care professional regarding
your contact lens use as well as following the manufacturer's
instructions for whatever disinfecting solution you are using to clean your
contact lenses that is the only way to protect your eyes your eye health and
your vision overall so eye health question of the day which one of these
three methods works best for you which one of these tips helped you out the
most comment and connect in the section below
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