Contacts: Who's wearing them under their goggles and who isn't?
At my last eye exam, my dr. sternly lectured me about the evils of swimming with contacts. When your goggles leak, which seems inevitable, the chlorine seeps in the lens, contaminates it and can thereby irritate your cornea.
I wore contacts my whole youth without incident, but now I notice some dry eye and redness. The problem is I don't like most prescription goggles.
What does everyone think? Anyone whacked out an eye?
I wear daily disposable lenses, and when I swim at lunch, I swim with them in. Sometimes it works and my eyes feel fine, other times, I have to ditch them because the chlorine has gotten to them. I have a tear duct that is man-made(had surgery in my 20's to repair it), and it does not have a one way valve that natural tear ducts have, so water goes both ways, so very hard to keep it out of the goggles.
I know a lot of kids wear contacts when they swim.
I wear daily disposable lenses, and when I swim at lunch, I swim with them in. Sometimes it works and my eyes feel fine, other times, I have to ditch them because the chlorine has gotten to them. I have a tear duct that is man-made(had surgery in my 20's to repair it), and it does not have a one way valve that natural tear ducts have, so water goes both ways, so very hard to keep it out of the goggles.
I know a lot of kids wear contacts when they swim.
