Can You Wear Contact Lenses While Swimming?
June 19th, 2010 | See the Top Answers to this Question Below
Wearing Contacts While Swimming
I’m going to a nude swimming party tomorrow where we will be skinny dipping and I’m thinking of wearing my contacts to swim naked. I’m pretty sure if you have monthly contacts you can’t but I have daily or disposable contacts. Is it OK if you go swimming and wear goggles or don’t open your eyes in the water?
Can I wear my contact lenses while I am swimming or should I take them out and then put them back in later?
Should I bring a swimsuit?
P.S. I’m pretty sure the pool has chlorine in it.
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Swimming with your contact lenses on, is possible but very risky. The health risk associated is merely dependent upon the body of water you are in. When swimming on lakes and rivers, there is a huge possibility for a microorganism called acanthamoeba to adhere to your lens, causing infection and inflammation of your cornea (acanthamoeba keratitis). Swimming around pools and ocean waters on the other hand, decreases your susceptibility to microbial infection, but other problems may evolve. In the pool–eye irritation is possible when chlorine sticks on the surface of your lens; in the ocean–your contact lenses can be dislodge when you encounter large waves. You can still wear your lenses, but do so but with proper precautions.
yeah you most definitely can, i mean it’s not the best thing to do but you can. i’m a swimmer and i wear my contacts at practice everyday. mine are monthly disposable contacts. and yeah, if you go underwater make sure you DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES, unless you have goggles on. if someone splashes you in they eye, you contact may get all messed up and not correctly on your eye, if that happens i just shut my eye for a few seconds and it usually goes back the spot where it should be.
so, just be careful they don’t fall out and you should be fine!
i’ve also used prescription goggles a few times, and they work, but it’s probably too late to order them
http://www.swimoutlet.com/product_p/5726.htm
all pools have chlorine, and it is possible and very safe. i do it every day at practice, but i wear goggles. it might sting a little bit if you get chlorine under your contacts
I swim everyday, twice a day. I always wear my contacts, because glasses obviously don’t work while in the pool. I never have trouble, but i always wear goggles. i definitely wouldn’t wear them if you do not plan on wearing goggles though
well this is a good post….