Man who slept in his contact lenses goes blind in one eye [Just stick with glasses]

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August 21, 2015 12:36 PM

If you wear contact lenses and you've slept in them or forgot to disinfect them, This is dangerous and you can go blind.

Meet Chad Groeschen, a 39-year-old who just got blind from his refusal to remove his contact lenses before sleeping

If you wear contact lenses and you've slept in them or forgot to disinfect them, This is dangerous and you can go blind.

Meet Chad Groeschen, a 39-year-old who just got blind from his refusal to remove his contact lenses before sleeping. Last month, Groeschen was at work when his eyes started itching. He figured it was allergies, so he wasn’t too concerned.

Groeschen told BuzzFeed News that he woke up the next day feeling like he had a sinus infection, so he went to the doctor for medicine.

He said his vision was a little cloudy, but he wasn’t too alarmed.

The day after, Groeschen woke up with excruciating pain in his left eye, and almost no vision at all. He found a specialist, who told him his eye was severly infected with Pseudomonas bacteria.

Doctors told Groeschen that the bacteria likely got under his lens and began viciously attacking his eye. Groeschen who is now completely blind in one eye has advised people to avoid sleeping in contacts (which you really shouldn’t do), not replacing their contacts frequently enough, “topping off” their lens solution instead of totally replacing it, and swimming in their lenses.

These are things basically all contact lens wearers are doing on a daily basis. Which is a bad habit that cam put them at risk for an eye infection.

Obviously not every little mistake will lead to serious injury, but contact lens wearers need to start taking their eye health seriously as any bad habits can cause a severe, sight-threatening infections.

However, Groeschen says he hopes that others will read his story and realize that when it comes to your eyes, you can’t mess around.

“If anything happens to your eye seek a specialist immediately…(and) maintain impeccable hygiene when it comes to your eyes,” he said.

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