By: fallen angel

I am a paranoid man, for good reasons. I don’t believe in unnecessarily risking your health, and possibly life. We are all exposed to enough risk already:

• Possible accidents on the road when driving or even when travelling in public transports due to own fault or other people’s fault.
• Natural disasters.
• Health related risks.
• Fire at home or other home related risks.

However, it’s not the end of the world.

Paranoid people like me learns to deal with such risks by accepting the fact that such risks exist, and manoeuvre through their lives minimizing existing risks as much as they can without too much impact on living normally. People that fail to deal with this ends up isolating themselves from society, and a good example is Howard Hughes, whose story inspires the movie “The Aviator“.

Having said all that, the point of this daily tip is to advise people not to try out the trial contact lenses when purchasing it. Most of the optical giants has stopped distributing trial packs for hygiene purposes, but some of the smaller ones still do.

Unlike the hospitals and clinics, the optical shops are not tightly controlled with strict procedures that ensures the well being of people and minimizing the spread of communicable diseases. They do not wear gloves, and they do not have strict procedures that ensures that the trial packs that they use are properly sterilized when it is tested from one customer to another.

Although the risks are small, it doesn’t mean it does not exist. Contact lenses, when not sterilized and disinfected properly, can be vectors for communicable diseases. It’s okay when it’s a treatable one, like eye infections, but what if it’s an untreatable one? Who’s at fault here?

So please beware, and don’t expose yourself to unnecessary risks.

References:

• http://www.acuvue.com/ce2003/cemod10/index.html
• http://www.springerlink.com/content/v732805rg2q30504/