{"id":1465,"date":"2023-09-29T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T06:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/the-influence-of-hygiene-on-the-cleanliness-of-contact-lens-cases\/"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T08:35:13","slug":"the-influence-of-hygiene-on-the-cleanliness-of-contact-lens-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/the-influence-of-hygiene-on-the-cleanliness-of-contact-lens-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"The influence of hygiene on the cleanliness of contact lens cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any deviation from a strict hygiene routine can increase t<br\/>he possibility of microbial contamination in contact lens wearers.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent survey of 119 users reported that the presence of significant<br\/>number of bacteria increased with certain non-hygiene habits.<br\/>2\/3 (66%) of cases tested positive for bacterial or fungal infection,<br\/>especially of those who wore lenses over 2 years, indicating that<br\/>old users tend to become more careless.<br\/>The researchers found that key steps to reduce infection are<br\/>proper hand washing with soap before handling lenses contact,<br\/>rinsing the case with lens cleaning fluid, .<br\/>leaving the case to air dry when empty and its use<br\/>recommended by the manufacturer of our wet case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any deviation from a strict hygiene routine can increase t<br \/>\nhe possibility of microbial contamination in contact lens wearers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contact-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zervopoulosopticians.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}