The German Green Cross fehlsichtigen advises allergy sufferers to hard rather than soft contact lenses.
Since contact lenses in itself irritate the eyes, allergies should actually wear glasses. Those who do not want or can be at least hard contact lenses are. This along with the more commonly used allergy eye drops.
Dr. Gudrun Bischoff, head of the working group contact lenses in the eyes of German doctors called in a press release of the German Green Cross the reason: "in contrast to the hard lenses larger pores are deposited into the soft lenses molecules of the eye drops, the soft lenses to discolor them and solve substances out to the conjunctiva and cornea irritation. "
Hard contact lenses, however, may already about 15 minutes after the application of anti-allergic eye drops safely reinstated.
