Health experts recommend that contact-wearers should switch to glasses during the coronaviruspandemic. That’s mainly due to the fact that people who wear contacts touch their eyes and faces more often than people who don’t wear contacts, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Touching your face is a major way that COVID-19 has been spreading. Contact lens users […]
Contacts Lens vs Glasses In The Age of COVID-19
Date: March 31, 2020, Categories:
Health experts recommend that contact-wearers should switch to glasses during the coronaviruspandemic.
That’s mainly due to the fact that people who wear contacts touch their eyes and faces more often than people who don’t wear contacts, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Touching your face is a major way that COVID-19 has been spreading.
Contact lens users also have to touch their eyes daily, including removing their lenses twice or more every day. “You touch your eye and then you touch another part of your body,” Dr. Thomas Steinemann, a clinical spokesperson for the AAO, told CNN.
“You rub your eyes, then rub your face, scratch your face, put your fingers in your mouth, put your fingers in your nose,” he continued. “Some people are not very hygienic and may have forgotten to first wash their hands.”
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