Some common do’s and don’ts about cleaning your pair of glasses.
Eyes, your mirror to the world and glasses or spectacles help you see the world more clearly. For a spectacle wearer, nothing is more spectacular than a clear and clean spectacle lens. How great it would be if you can get rid of smears, scratches, fingertips on your lenses. But seldom do we take proper care of the spectacle, which results in poor and hindered vision. Here is a complete guide of a few do’s and don’ts about cleaning and maintaining your glasses.
The biggest folly committed by most of us is that we clean our lenses with just anything. It can be the sleeve of your shirt, your handkerchief, towel, even tissue paper. The result of such negligence are scratches that damage your precious lenses. Here are a few steps for cleaning your spectacle lenses recommend by an ophthalmologist.
It is important to clean your hands and dry them thoroughly before cleaning your glasses. That is because any dirt and harmful bacteria’s can be transferred to your lenses.
Washing your glasses with clean lukewarm water from the tap can remove the dust and various debris. It is important to rinse this dust, or the small particles can damage the lenses while cleaning. It is important to note that water must not be very hot.
Now take a mild liquid soap or a bit of dishwashing liquid on your fingertip. And gently rub the lenses and other parts of the spectacles. Take special care to clean the area around nose pads and edges of the frame. Please note to avoid hand wash liquid with lotions and moisturizers.
This part is very important as if even a spot of soap is left, then it would smear the lenses, and the whole exercise would be futile. Shake the excess water and check whether they are thoroughly clean.
Now with the help of microfibre cloth, dry your lenses and spectacle.
Please avoid these common mistakes while cleaning your glasses.
Avoid using cuffs, shirttails and tissues to clean your lens.
Please refrain from using saliva to wet your glasses.
Don’t use the glass cleaning solutions and surface cleaners as they can wipe off the useful anti-glare coating on your lenses.
It is true that glasses won’t last forever, but with these tips, they would last for a long time.
