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I went to the optometrist yesterday. I didn’t expect much more than the usual rubber stamp of my old prescription but this my first appointment since the thing with people getting fungal infection from their contacts: some brands of cleaner were recalled and are off the market now.

In any case it sounds people were getting stuff growing in their cases and the offending cleaners weren’t strong enough to kill it. Since it was in people’s cases, any new lenses that they used were instantly infected.

Ick! My old case is several years old!

Bottom line: the current advice is to toss your contact lens cases every three months. I’ve got a new case and have Sharpie tagged it with an expiration date.

They also want you using a name brand cleaner. That’s pretty old advice but makes even more sense in light of demonstrated consequences.