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From: tomm@tekecs.UUCP (Tom Milligan)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Extended wear & regular soft contact lenses: showering/swimming
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 18:18:57 EDT
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	I wear extended-wear contact lenses (Hydrocurve II) and have had
no bad effects from wearing them in the shower or from swimming
with them in.  
	In the shower, I don't try and look up the shower nozzle, but I do
try and open my eyes and let some water get to the lenses...I figure
that it serves to keep them a little cleaner.
	When swimming I usually wear goggles...when I have been in situations 
where I didn't have my goggles with me, or to have them would be
inconvenient (ie. falling off a sailboat) I have made it a practice to
avoid opening my eyes underwater.
	I have noticed that after I go swimming, and some of the
swimming hole/pool water gets to the lenses, I usually feel the need
to clean the lenses within 3 or 4 days.
	Also, it appears that, because a saline environment is their natural 
home, the lenses change their shape when they absorb fresh water, and when
they change their shape, they no longer ride on the front of the cornea.
	Hope this is helpful.

				Tom Milligan