The Stansbery Collection for Botanical Art.

The Arader Natural History Collection of Art.BRIT Collections, Labs & Library Exhibitions.Soft lenses will absorb liquids, so caution is due. Got creosote in my eye once, with contacts, It wasn't fun.

Solvents: I'm extremely careful with them. Exact work with small lines or reading small print requires the cheap over-the-counter reading glasses. It took a couple of weeks for my brain to sort this out and it works great for most things. I'm very nearsighted (making it easy to read with no correction, but blind as a bat for any distance, like 1 foot), so I have my right eye 'undercorrected' and use it for reading and my left eye is corrected for good distance vision. If there's any wood that you are allergic to, you want to be especially careful not to get it plastered to your contacts.Īcuity: I use 'monovision' to cope with the nearsightedness of middle age. Safety glasses help, but what really works is swimmers' goggles. That being said, sanding is still the biggest problem when wearing my lenses. It's much harder for particles to get underneath them. Soft lenses, which I've worn for quite a long time now, can work well. My thoughts: Hard lenses really don't work well under such conditions - the dust gets under them very easily and scratches the eye. Over the last ahhhhh, shall we say 'many' years, I've worn contact lenses in very dusty conditions: Riding horses in arenas and working wood. I would suggest you ask your eye doctor for his opinion also. It didn't hurt at the time but when I put them in the next day my eyes stung big time! My point is the lenses will absorb nasty stuff from the air and can then create problems with your eyes. Although somewhat unrelated, I had fumes from pepper spray get into my soft lenses once. You may also not want to wear them if you are spraying finishes or paint. I wear soft lenses that have a good fit and I think that helps keep the dust out from under the lenses. The times that I have worked in the shop with my contacts, I did not notice any more problems with dust than I do without them. I don't believe my regular glasses are rated as 'safety glasses' so I wear safety goggles or a face shield over my glasses. For some reason, I don't need reading glasses or bi-focals when I wear my regular glasses. In spite of my success with contact lenses, I don't wear them in the shop because accurate work requires that I wear reading glasses with my lenses (after 40 the eyes start to go).

I've been wearing contacts for several years and in general terms have not had anymore problems with dust than I do with my glasses. Finally, a post I actually know something about!

Contact lens trial storage cabinet