hey howdy everybody Dr. EyeGuy here if you are new to contact lenses then you just clicked on
the right video i just combined my videos on how to put contacts in and how to take contacts out
into this one beneficial video with my tips and tricks so be sure to wash your hands get your
contacts ready and let's focus in now usually i tell my patients to use their dominant hand to
actually handle the contact lenses this is where you're going to use the pad of your pointer finger
to get the contact lens out of the package a lot of the time you can actually just dip your
finger into the solution and touch the contact and the contact will just stick to your finger
or you can scoop it out now you want to maneuver the contact and flip it over so it sits like a
bowl on the finger you're going to use to put the contact in this is where you're going to carefully
examine the contact lens bring it up to eye level and there are a few things that you want to check
for check for any lint or particles or rips or tears or chunks out of the contact because if
you put that in your eye yeah it's not going to feel very good now this is also where you want
to make sure the contact lens isn't inside out there is a correct way that it goes onto the eye
the best way to tell is to look at the top edge of the contact lens if it's holding a firm bowl
shape then it's correct if the edge of the contact lens is flailing out then it's inside out another
easy way to tell is actually to pinch it between your fingers if you pinch it and the edge of the
contact lens is pointing in it's holding its shape then it's correct if you pinch it and the edge of
the contact lenses are flailing out maybe they're hugging your fingers a little bit then it's inside
out okay here we go this is where we're actually going to put the contact lens in and this is
what i usually tell patients there are two big enemies to getting contact lenses in number one
are your own eyelids so i'm going to start with my right eye the contact is in my dominant hand
my non-dominant hand is going to control my top eyelid so you want to reach right over your head
and reach down and pull that top eyelid up with your fingers your dominant hand middle finger is
going to pull down on the bottom eyelid now here are the biggest tips i can give you to make this
go fast when you're grabbing the eyelids you want to grab as close as possible to the eyelid margin
right near the eyelashes if you grab too high or too low you won't create enough room to get
the contact lens onto the eyeball if you grab to the eyelashes and pull pull pretty hard that will
create a lot more room to make it way easier to get the contact lens in now here's an even better
tip especially if you have long eyelashes when i'm grabbing that top eyelid actually very slow
and very gentle grab my eyelashes and pin it up against the orbital bone on the top
this will get the eyelashes out of the way and it will really lock your top eyelid open to make it
a lot easier to get that contact lens in okay now that you got your eyelids locked open here comes
enemy number two your own eyeball now when you start bringing that contact lens close to your eye
sometimes your eye is going to flip out a little bit it'll start looking up down left right just to
get out of the way of the contact lens here's my pro tip on this one as you're approaching the eye
with the contact lens you want to try your best to keep looking at yourself in the mirror keep
looking straight ahead if all of a sudden you're looking at the ceiling or the wall or to the side
it's going to be really hard to get that contact lens right on the center of the eye now here's my
tip on this part the temptation will be once the contact touches your eye you're going to want to
go really fast and shove it right into the eye as fast as possible i'm sorry to say this will
be super difficult and probably won't work if you go too fast the contacts won't have a chance to
adhere to the eye and will a lot of times fold over and fold over back onto your finger this
is where we want to have a little bit of patience once the contact touches the eye you want to push
in just a little bit and give it two to three seconds this will give the contact lens a chance
to adhere right onto the cornea the other tip here is once you know the contact has grabbed
onto your eye the temptation will be to close your eyes really fast but that might push out the
contact back out of your eye if you can once the contact is on the eye slowly and gently release
your eyelids and slowly blink this will help smooth out the contact onto your eye and help
it stay in there also a tip for the contact lens if you notice the inside of the contact
is a little dry try putting one drop of contact lens solution in the contact that solution will
help create a better suction when you're putting it on the aisle help that contact adhere and grab
onto the eye another tip if no matter what you do the contact lens is staying on your finger and not
grabbing onto your eye try drying the tip of your finger and keeping the inside of the contact lens
wet with solution this will help the contact lens release from the finger and grab onto your eye
okay now that you've got the contacted one eye you just switch over and do the same thing in
the other eye and i usually just tell people to use the same dominant hand that they used
and just switch over and go through the same motions okay now that you have the contacts in hit
that like button and let's take the contacts out i usually tell people to use their non-dominant hand
reach over and grab the top eyelid and pull and then the dominant hand using the middle
finger to pull the bottom eyelid down now remember you want to grab the eyelids from the
eyelid margin where the eyelashes are now that we have the eyelids out of the way we're going to use
our pointer finger and our thumb on the dominant hand to actually take the contacts out and this
is what you need to practice you need to be able to make a tweezer-like motion with the pads of
your thumb and pointer finger you don't want to be using your fingernails or the tips of your
fingers because you could accidentally scratch or damage your eye now with the eyelids out of the
way you're going to take your fingers and you're going to aim for the bottom third of the cornea
the bottom third of where that contact is at now when you actually touch the contact make sure both
fingers are touching the contact and then you're gonna make your little tweezer motion and that's
gonna grab the contact right off of your cornea okay now here are the tips to make that easy
kind of like when you put the contacts in you want to make sure that your eyes are staring straight
forward looking at yourself in the mirror it's going to be a lot harder if your eyes going to
be moving up and down left and right because it'll be really hard to actually follow and chase that
contact to take it out so make sure you're looking straight ahead so you can aim and hit your target
the other tip and this is probably the best one when i see a lot of people learning how
to take the contacts out the amount of pressure that you put on the eye or the contact lenses
is a little bit more than you think it will be a lot of times they'll go in and use their tweezer
motion and then they pull out thinking they get the contact lens but it's still in the eye because
they didn't apply enough pressure to actually grab the contact when you touch the contact with your
fingers push in just a little bit and then do the tweezer motion and that will get the contact out
of there now just be careful don't push too hard don't get aggressive about it it's just a little
bit more pressure than you think and then do the tweezer motion that will allow you to grip the
contact a little bit better a lot of people have a hard time feeling the contact lens or knowing
where the contact lens is sometimes they'll be tweezing at their eyeball and not the contact and
actually irritating their eye even more so this is a way to actually know where the contact is and
to kind of loosen the grip the contact has on the eyeball for this way before you use the tweezer
method you're going to actually look up a little bit and you're going to use your finger and touch
right on the eye and drag down very very gently make sure you touch right on the cornea if you can
and that light pressure and drag down this will drag the contact down your eyeball as well now
this will do two things this will loosen the grip it has on the eyeball and also give you a tactile
response so you know exactly where that contact is so let me show you this one so you're going to
look up just a little bit use your pointer finger right on the cornea and drag down and you'll see
your vision kind of warp a little bit and you'll feel that contact get pulled down and then once
you've pulled it down then you can go in with the tweezer method and try and grab it that way so let
me show you here i'm going to look up gently drag down then go in with the tweezer method
and then pull the contact right off you can also use the same method and actually pull it to the
side if that feels like it'll be easier for you as well for this one you're going to use
the same process you're going to look off to the side instead of look up make sure that you use
your pointer finger right on the cornea and then drag the contact over to the side and then use the
tweezer method and then you can pull it right out now for people that have really long fingernails
it can be a little extra difficult to get the contacts out because it can be really hard to
use the tweezer method this way is not as popular but sometimes it's the best way if you have really
long fingernails and that's to not even use the tweezer method instead you're going to pull the
contact and keep pulling and the contact will be bunched up onto the side and roll out and then
you can grab it off from there if you're needing additional tips and tricks make sure you check
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