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From: rand@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: Extended wear & regular soft con - (nf)
Message-ID: <299@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 09:02:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  6 09:02:02 1983
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I also cannot speak for extended-wear lenses, but I do wear soft lenses.
I wear them all the time, including while kayaking.  Kayaking is a *very*
wet sport.  I have never lost a lens in the ocean or in white water, but
I did lose one once while teaching others how to kayak.  The class was
taught at an indoor pool.  On one occasion I had a lens *almost* get lost
in a river, but managed to keep it in my eye until I could get to shore and
re-insert it.

I think that if one is reasonably careful about not opening one's eyes
very much under water, and avoiding direct spashing in the eyes (very
hard while kayaking) that the risk is low enough to warrant wearing them
swimming.  (I always wear them swimming, in comparison to kayaking, that
is like wearing them to work!)  You should be prepared to have to replace
them, though.  I also have no trouble with chlorine absorption or river
water, or even ocean water (very sandy).  Each person is different and I
think you have to experiment for yourself.
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