You're Cleaning Your Contacts Wrong, Probably

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This week Reactions is checking out the chemistry behind cleaning your contacts. Ninety-nine percent of adults who wear contacts admit to breaking some cardinal lens rules: sleeping in them, washing them in water and so on. Many contact-wearers may brush off these accidents, but improper lens care can have gross — and sometimes serious —consequences. This week, Reactions collaborates with Anna Rothschild from Gross Science to explain why unclean contacts can cause problems and how to prevent them.

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Music:
Hipnarcotic Funk by Carvin Knowles

Writer:
Sam Lemonick

Narrator:
Noel Waghorn

Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski

Scientific consultants:
Sophia Cai
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.
David Evans, Ph.D.

Video Producer:
Sean Parsons

Sources:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrh...
http://journals.lww.com/optvissci/Ful...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/357...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24...
http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v6/...

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