Speaking to Express.co.uk, optician Sharon Copeland from Feel Good Contacts listed make-up removal before bed as her number one tip for good eye health. She said: “We already know that sleeping in our make-up is bad, but did you know it could also result in sight loss? A woman who hadn’t properly removed her mascara for 25 years suffered subconjunctival concretions (dots on the underside of the eyelid filled with debris).”
“This was associated with a patchy follicular conjunctivitis and punctate corneal erosions.
“Histopathological examination of a conjunctival biopsy revealed a chronic inflammatory infiltrate with pigmented macrophages, in keeping with foreign body deposition.”
Corneal erosion is when the layer of cells on the surface of the cornea, called epithelium, loosens from the layer underneath.
According to the AAO this is “painful and makes your vision blurry or hazy”.
DON’T MISS
Not overusing and reusing contact lenses – sleeping in your contact lenses and wearing them for longer than the recommended time is dangerous.
Wearing contact lenses for too long will deprive your eyes of oxygen, drying them out and leading to irritation.
Daily lenses in particular are only designed to be worn for a day, after which the lens starts to break down, and you wouldn’t want that to happen while it’s in your eye.
Not wearing sunglasses – even on overcast days, we still need to wear sunglasses. UV rays still affect our eyes even when the sun isn’t shining.
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