Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by crazydoggers on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:39AM (#14094803)

What an ignorant statement. Vinegar is safe to drink... but I don't think you'd want to rinse your contact with it. And maybe educate yourself before posting such a coment. The amoeba that causes this can indeed live in tap water...

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/acanthamoeba/gen_info/acantham...

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by ams6110 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:45AM (#14094827)

Don't be absurd. You wouldn't rinse your contacts with Coca-Cola either.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by crazydoggers on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:48AM (#14094841)

Vinegar is an acid. You said if it's safe to drink it's safe to rinse your lenses with. I'm pretty sure your cornea will be damaged if you rinse your lense with vinegar and stick it in your eye. So your point that if it's safe to drink it's safe to rinse a contact lense with is patently false.

More to the point, your stomach has acid that can kill microorganisms in tap water. Your eye has no such defense.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by djsumdog on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:12AM (#14095218)

Don't feed the trolls.

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