How to Take Out Contact Lenses Easily (Beginners Tutorial)

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🔷 Show Notes 🔷

NOTE: It is best to have short fingernails as it will make the removal process easier. Long fingernails puts you at higher risk of a corneal abrasion.

How to Remove Contacts: (Step by step)
1. Wash and Dry your hands (very dry hands work best)
2. Control your eyelids with your fingers
3. Pinch the contact lens with fingers as shown (don’t touch your eye)
4. Remove the lens
5. Clean the lens if needed or throw away

Another method of how to remove contacts
1. Wash and Dry your hands (very dry hands work best)
2. Control your eyelids with your fingers
3. Slide contact lens over to the white part of the eye
4. Pinch the contact lens with fingers as shown (don’t touch your eye)
5. Remove the lens
6. Clean the lens if needed or throw away

IMPORTANT: If you ever have a red eye, a painful eye, you think you scratched your eye or experiencing vision loss related to your contacts...REMOVE THE LENSES and call your local eye doctor ASAP.

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About This Video:
Having trouble removing contact lenses? Well then this contact lenses video is for you. Here Joseph Allen, OD, FAAO from Doctor Eye Health shows how to take out soft contacts. Contact lenses are great at improving vision but can also make your eyes uncomfortable and puts them at risk of infection, so knowing how to take contact lenses out is very important. People are often afraid of the contacts sliding under their eyelids, so this video will also review how to take off contacts that get stuck in the eye. If you continue to have trouble taking out contacts be sure to contact your local eye doctor right away.
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[DoctorEyeHealth]

🔷 QOTD: What was your favorite part of the video? Do you have any tips of your own for removing contacts?

[kyouzama]

"The lens cannot go behind the eye, physiologically it's impossible."

Oh thank god my question got answered.

[DaLazyCouchPotato]

A’ight I’ve moved past the fear of touching my eye, and onto the anger of trying to get a good grip

[samson]

my man you still saving lives out here before I took my eye sockets out 😭 after more then an hour in the god damn bathroom having a mental breakdown, drying and washing my hands more then 100 times, I finally succeeded and took them off, THANKYOU, seemed like the struggle was never going to end, anyone else watching this don’t give up 🤘🏻, the first time is always the hardest 😪

[adamhuman]

My husband was struggling as it was his first time ever having to take a contact lens out. After much frustration we decided to ask you tube and this was our first video, well he got his right one out on the first try and left one out on the third try! Thanks doc, you deserve all the likes that you get for this one!

[ImPerfectlyTwitta]

I was legitimately crying in the bathroom for 10+ minutes terrified that it was permanently stuck. Your video got it out in 2 try’s. Seriously....thank you so much

[alayah]

I had been trying to take out my contact for 2 hours and right after i watched this video I got them out :)

[MOTODylann]

my eyes are olympically trained to keep my contacts in and not give them back

[raincandy]

This video is like magic. Every time my contacts are stuck, I play this while trying to get it out and it's out asap

[jaidahzavaglia]

I got my contacts yesterday and I literally take and hour to get them out, this was helpful thanks!

[mariabelen]

Who else is watching this with tears streaming down your face

[genevievemyran]

I just got contacts today and it took me 20+ mins to get one contact out in front of the person who was “training” me. I watched this video and got both of them out in under 30 seconds. The “tweezer/kissing” finger trick is GENIUS. You saved me from weeks of panic attacks, THANK YOU.

[JStone]

This worked wonderfully! After struggling for 30 minutes, I turned to YouTube and this video did the trick. The key takeaways for me were (1) do the SMALL kissing motion with your fingers and (2) keep your fingers dry. I was pinching from outside the contact lens, which was probably picking up moisture and preventing my fingers from sticking to the lens. I guess the silver lining to failing for 30 minutes is that I’m now more comfortable with messing with my eyes haha

[Christ-xbwu]

Putting them in is easier than taking them out

[coupleodevs]

Who else was having an actual panic attack before watching the video?

[bettysayshey]

I don’t wear contacts very often and when I do I have a really hard time getting them out. Finally I broke down and came to YT and found this video. Thank you so much!! With your method here I got the contacts out in seconds!! Big hug!!

[AB-uhcf]

I just want to say thank you SO much! Everyone said "just pinch your fingers together", and I'd spend FOREVER trying to make it work, and end up using my nails (accidentally). The way you explained it just made my 10 minute long, painful process into an easy 2 second thing. So THANK YOU!!!

[bones]

It’s to the point where I feel like just taking my entire eye out

[esther]

GUYS I GOT IT OUT!! I saw a comment that said that before you pinch the contact out, you should leave your fingers on the contact for 5 seconds so that your fingers will better stick to it. I got it out after a few tries!!

[rachelmclaren]

Just started wearing contacts and taking them out has been a huge learning curve. DRY fingers and pinching at the lower third was what worked best for me too! Also, I use drops right before removing