Keep your nails trimmed and cleaned. Removing contacts with long nails can tear or split the contacts.
Be careful when applying saline drops. The tip of the bottle shouldn’t touch your eye. Doing so can introduce bacteria into your eye. In a pinch, some contact lens disinfecting solutions are safe to apply. Use caution though — if the bottle tip is red or there are warnings on the bottle about not putting the solution in your eye, then don’t use it.
Your eye may water and hurt if the contact is stuck under the lid or in the corner of your eye.
If you’ve truly lost the contact, it may have fallen out. In this case, you won’t find the contact by looking throughout your eye.
The contact may have folded and is hiding under the eyelid. Shining a flashlight can make this easier to see.
Your helper can also look around your bedroom to see if the contacts fell out while you slept.
Avoid rubbing your eyelids against the contact unless you’ve added moistening drops. Rubbing dry contacts could scratch the surface of your eye.
Don’t try to remove the lens until it slides around your eye like normal. Attempting to rip it off may cause an injury. Also, don’t try to unfold the lens before removing it from you eye since you’re more likely to tear it.
Before you can remove the contact, make sure it slides easily across your eye, and gently slide it back into place.
Some eye doctors recommend inserting a new contact lens if you’re having trouble getting a contact out from under your eyelid. Putting in a new contact and blinking may bring the old contact down from underneath the lid.
Add saline or rewetting drops if your eye or contact starts feeling dry again.
Repeat this with the contact in your other eye.
Using a tool is especially helpful if you can see where the contact is stuck, but you just can’t remove it using just your fingers.
You might want to wear glasses for the day to rest your eyes.
You’ve tried multiple times to get your stuck contacts out Your eyes are irritated Your eyes are red You feel pain
