Contact Lenses For Dry Eyes

Choosing The Best Contact Lenses For Dry Eyes

Do you wear contact lenses? Do you have a problem with dry eyes and find that contacts make this worse? What if you could have the contacts you want without the dry eyes that make you uncomfortable and hinder your vision? You need to know the best contact lenses for dry eyes. For example, silicon hydrogel contact lenses are especially made for people with dry eyes and they can help ease dryness and related discomfort caused by your lenses.

Hydrogel lenses are one newly developed type of contact lenses to help people with dry eyes that still want to be able to wear contact lenses. They are FDA approved to help with a chronic dry eye problem and make contact lenses available to a wider range of individuals than ever before. Would you like to learn more about which contact lenses are best if you have dry eye?

The Problem With Dry Eyes

Our eyes need moisture and oxygen to work properly.  When your eyes are deprived of oxygen, they become dry and irritated, which could make your contact lenses dry out and fall out or slip out of position and hurt your eyes. 

Dry eyes while wearing contact lenses causes eye discomfort and can affect your ability to see, which defeats the purpose of wearing contacts. Some people have dry eyes to begin with and contacts only aggravate the condition.

Other people develop dry eyes related to contact lenses because they are wearing the wrong type, have an allergic reaction to the lens or the lens is blocking the proper flow of oxygen to the eye.  Your eye dryness might also be caused by the preservatives in your contact lens soaking or cleaning solution, but fortunately you have the option to buy a preservative-free solution.

Discover Contacts that Work for Your Dry Eyes

What kind of lenses should you choose if you suffer from eye dryness? The following lenses are some of the best options:

• Silicon Hydrogels – They are specifically FDA approved for dryness. These have been tested by the FDA to be approved for people with dry eyes. They have less water content and provide a lot more oxygen to your eyes than the regular soft contacts, which helps your eyes retain moisture.  Some of the best silicon hydrogel contacts are Proclear Compatibles by Biocompatibles.  Other good choices include Focus Night & Day, CibaO2 Optix, Acuvue Oasys and Acuvue Advance.
 
• Daily disposables -  Great for people with allergies.  These are very helpful for people who have dry eye from mineral deposits that collect on the eye when wearing contacts. Since these are thrown out at the end of every day, you do not have to worry about this.  Focus Dailies and 1 Day Acuvue are two of the most popular daily disposables.

• Rigid Gas Permeable – Since RGP lenses are made of a firmer, non-absorbable material, they do not draw moisture from your eyes.  Additionally, this material resists debris and protein deposits better than the soft lens material, which means cleaner and more comfortable contacts.

Now that you know more about the best contact lenses for someone with sensitive or dry eyes, you can talk with your eye doctor about which options work with your prescription. If you thought you could never wear contacts due to dry eye, there may now be a solution that works for you.