After myopic laser surgery, can you wear contact lens?

Laser surgery is a common treatment of myopia at present. It is to remove the corneal stromal layer between the cornea through laser technology, so as to change the corneal curvature to achieve the purpose of correcting myopia. As laser surgery matures, many people succeed in taking off their glasses and improving their quality of life. But there is a view, after doing myopia laser surgery cannot wear contact lenses, is this true?

Because the eye conditions and living habits of each myopic patient are different, laser surgery is relatively personalized and requires doctors to conduct a comprehensive evaluation. During the postoperative recovery period, there may be problems such as eye swelling, unstable refraction, and insufficient correction. Therefore, for both safety and vision stability, you need to wait for about a year to wear contact lenses with the doctors permission.

However, there are several precautions for wearing contact lenses after surgery. First, it is recommended that you avoid wearing colored contact lenses. In order to ensure the safety of the eyes and eliminate the risk of staining, the color contact lenses adopt a "sandwich technology", which covers the dyeing layer and seals between the two lenses, but this will increase the thickness of the contact lenses, and the existence of the pigment layer is not conducive to the passage of oxygen, so the possibility of corneal hypoxia will be greatly increased.

Second, the wear time should be further shortened. Even after the recovery period, due to corneal thinning, the functions of the eyes may be affected, which is not as stable as before, so the time of wearing contact lenses must be strictly controlled. At the same time, it is also recommended that you choose contact lenses with higher oxygen permeability to avoid causing various complications.

Third, we need to pay special attention to the hygiene and cleanliness. Laser surgery leaves an incision in the cornea, so contact lenses are completely prohibited just after the operation, which is also intended to prevent wound infection. Even after the recovery period, there is still a high risk of inflammation due to the contact lenses wear on the corneal epithelial tissue, so more attention should be paid to disinfection and cleaning.

In fact, after myopia surgery, naked eye vision has been improved, continue to wear contact lenses is not necessary. But if you insist on wearing contact lenses, please be sure to pay attention to the above matters, and be sure to buy and match glasses.