Mr. McPherson is an office white-collar who has worn contact lenses for 5 years; He used more than six hours a day on a computer. Recently he finds that his dryness symptoms have become more and more serious. Expert warns, the reason why McPherson’s dryness symptoms get worse is due to the long-term contact lenses wear. Your eyes will get dry very easily when wear contact lenses for long time, because water evaporates from the front surface of the lens while being worn, it reacts by absorbing water from your natural tear film, causing you to have symptoms of Dry Eyes.

When wear contact lenses and stare at a computer screen for easier to accelerate dry eye symptoms, because people usually concentrate their attention on work before computer, habitual ground without blinking frequency blinking, or reduce wear contact lenses to blink, so after that tear more cannot lubricating the eye, and dry eyes. Staring at a monitor reduces the number of times you blink by up to 50%! This can cause the surface of your lenses to become dry, making your eyes feel uncomfortable and your vision less clear. You will find it difficult to focus properly after long stretches in front of the computer Since the contact lenses are normally for far distance use, sometimes, it will also brings some dizziness when wearing your contact lenses before a computer.

Contact lenses can provide a great improvement over eyeglasses for people who are bothered by the cosmetic appearance of eyeglasses or the limitation to activities that they pose. But we strongly recommend you to take of your contact lenses during computer use.

Here are valuable tips for computer users who have to wear contacts everyday:
Every 20 minutes, rest your eyes for 20 seconds by staring intently at an object at least 20 feet away.
Make sure not to sit too close to your computer screen. If your fingers can easily touch the monitor, you might be too close.

Avoid having a light source directly in front or behind you. If you sit by the window, you can use a screen filter to reduce the harmful glare.