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Originally Posted by Frodo
If you have to store your contacts in an emergency (Left home without your lens case, contact lens popped out away from home, etc.) can you store them in boiled water? Would it be best to boil the water first and then put the contacts in once it cooled? How about putting your contacts in a bowl of water and heating them in the microwave until the water bubbles? |
Twenty-four years (24) ago -- wow, that's a long time ago -- I had an aseptron (spelling") that you filled with saline solution and plugged it into an outlet for about 1/2 hour to disinfect them. Well, couldn't do that when I went camping/backpacking in the Sierras for 3 to 4 weeks. So, every night I would put my contacts into my lens case filled with saline solution, and place the case in boiling water over the campfire for about 10-15 minutes. How romantic is that? Watching your contacts boil among the hundreds of stars in the sky.
It worked then with whatever lenses I was wearing at the time. Don't know how todays contacts would hold up though -- probably not as well for sure.