What are the advantages or disadvantage of extended-wear contact lenses?
The advantage of the extended wear is you don’t have to hassle with them as often. You put them in, you forget about them for a week, and then you take them out. The disadvantages though is that they can be less comfortable because as the week goes on some proteins can build up on the lenses. And more importantly, extended-wear lenses increase your risk of getting a serious eye infection. Whenever you sleep in a contact lens, you’re increasing your risk of getting an infection or your cornea and those can be very serious, and on rare cases even blinding. And so my recommendation is, if possible, avoid sleeping in your contact lenses. Avoid extended-wear lenses unless you really have a good reason for taking extra risk of an eye infection. The kind of people who may want to wear extended-wear lenses are people who work all night sometimes. For example, maybe you drive all night, or perhaps you have irregular hours and it’s hard to get the lenses in and out, or maybe you’re woken up in t
