We consulted eye doctors to find out what you need to know about caring for your contacts and when to replace them.

People who wear contact lenses have a higher risk for keratitis, an infection of the cornea, the clear outer covering of your eye. They're also called corneal ulcers. Viruses, bacteria ...

Longer hours of contact lens wear lead to an elevated risk of developing infections, particularly microbial keratitis. It causes pain, redness, and even potential loss of vision.

Although effective drugs have become available, improvements in the treatment of contact lens-associated microbial keratitis are required. Over the last decade, the outcome of contact lens ...

Swimming or showering while wearing contact lenses can raise a person’s risk of developing Acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare but serious eye infection. Since contact lens wearers are at a higher ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a rare but sight‐threatening infection of the cornea primarily associated with contact lens wear. This condition arises when Acanthamoeba, a free-living amoeba ...

Objective: To report the therapeutic practice patterns of silicone hydrogel (SiH) bandage soft contact lenses (BSCL) and the resultant rate of microbial keratitis (MK). Methods: A retrospective ...

“Contact lenses are generally very safe but are associated with a small risk of microbial keratitis, most commonly caused by bacteria, and which is the only sight threatening complication of ...

Risk of developing the infection, called Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), increases when people wear contact lenses more often, shower, swim, or sleep with them in, or don’t clean them properly.

The most common eye infection associated with contact lenses is keratitis, which the Mayo Clinic describes as an inflammation of the cornea. And this infection happens a lot. The US Centers for ...