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Is It Safe To Use Lost Contact Lens After Putting It In Renu Solution?
i lost my soft contact lenses while taking it out and found it dried up on the floor the next evening about 20 hours. I put it in renu . solution left it for an hour and it came back to it s shape. I then cleaned the lense thoroughly and placed it back in the container after replacing the renu solution. I will leave it till the morning. Is it safe to put in my eye.
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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it is not safe to reuse it after putting in solution. it might have been damaged or infected. better go for new one.
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