Practice Hygiene with your Tights

Women who are modest love to wear tights. Since they provide sheer coverage, they are perfect to keep you stylish without putting your modesty at a stake. Tights are worn throughout the year because they keep you warm and at the same time ensure ventilation, unlike grandma pantyhose. Whether you have a favorite pair of tights that you keep repeating or a bunch of pairs; your tights need regular machine wash (in most the cases) every three to four wears. Otherwise, your tights will end up becoming the cesspool of bacteria.

How Regularly should I Wash my Tights?

Tights pick skin cells and sweat from body perspiration. Even though tights provide enough ventilation at the crotch area, they do develop bad odor over the course of wears. Tights keep your butt, legs and toe covered the entire day. This means they have been through the environmental dust, moisture & sebum debris that your skin produce. To keep them hygienic, it is good to toss them in the laundry basket every second day in summer/spring season. The washing cycle can be stretched to 3-4 days during winter though.

Unfortunately, washing tights scare most of the women as tights are somewhat expensive & delicate. Washing them way too often may deteriorate the finish, snag them, and make them fade the color or what worse than the development of fuzz balls? In order to prevent your hosiery from being orphan or get damaged during a machine wash, get yourself a lingerie bag. Lingerie bag keeps your undergarments safe. Furthermore, be very vigilant about keeping the machine cycle mild & wash using only cold water.

Make your Tights Last Longer Despite Regular Washing

Women’s Health Magazine suggests keeping a new pair of tights in the freezer for a night. As per them, the frigid temperature helps constricting the fibers in the tights that makes them last longer and rip-proof.

After you get a new pair of tights, simply run them under cold water and freeze. The next day, let them defrost over shower rod and let them air dry. Wear fearlessly & rock in any outfit!

Every clothing that hugs your skin closely needs to be thoroughly washed. However be gentle with your tights/stockings as these delicate pieces are prone to rip-offs. Failing to keep them clean means a cesspool of bacteria that can trigger infections at the groin & at genitals. 

5 Hygiene Related Risk Habits, 99% of Contact Lens Wearers are Engaged In

Contact lenses are the most preferred vision correction devices. 41 million people wear contact lenses in U.S alone. Though contact lens related injuries are rare; almost 1/3^rd of the participants of a CDC survey, conducted online recently, reported being engaged in risk-related attitude that resulted in red and painful eye requiring immediate medical attention. 99% of the participants confessed that they do not take health warnings concerning contact lenses seriously and are involved in one or more of the following improper hygienic habits that may result in fungus or bacterial contamination of colored contacts.

1. Sleeping or taking a nap in contact lenses. According to CDC even extended wear circle lenses that are approved for overnight wear by FDA should be avoided as they increase the risk of infection.
2. Rinsing or storing colored lenses by tap water. Tap water contains a corneal devouring microorganism “acanthamoeba” that may lead to permanent vision loss. Contact lenses must never be exposed to water.
3. Showering or swimming with contact lenses. These activities should also be avoided as exposure of contacts with water is never safe.
4. Topping off disinfecting solution. The solution in which contact lenses are stored, must be discarded every time. Most of the people rely on adding fresh solution to the old solution that reduces the efficacy of the disinfecting solution.
5. Failing to replace contact lenses and cases on time. Contact lens cases must be replaced every 3 months whereas contact lenses follow an expiry date depending on their type.

Avoiding above mentioned unhealthy attitudes prevent contact lens related infections. Contact lenses mean no burden- except being a bit more concerned about personal hygiene. 

Eye Discharge & Burning Sensation: A Warning Bell for People Wearing Contact Lenses

Eye discharge when is accompanied by burning sensation & itching usually refers to an eye infection. A light discharge is harmless but if it changes color, consistency & leave crush able/beady residues at the eye corners and lashes; one must consult the ophthalmologist. On the other hand if you regularly wear prescription contact lenses, do take a note of the following factors. Often times; unhygienic practices with contact lenses induce bacteria transmission & attract viral infections.

Common causes of an eye infection that is accompanied by itching/burning/discharge/inflammation & irritation are given below:

• Wearing over the counter/cheap contact lenses
• Wearing unclean contact lenses
• Sharing contact lenses with friends & family
• Wearing contact lenses for the extended period of time
• Wearing expired contact lenses
• Wearing sub standard/ expired eye drops
• Sharing eye makeup

Contact lenses and contact lens cases might be the breeding bed of germs. Bacterial accumulation over contact lenses helps spread the contagious disease. The parasitic introduction to eyes through unhygienic contact lenses can lead to complete corneal devouring.

Therefore, always follow the care & instructions thatcome with your contact lenses. Circle lenses & colored contacts are fun & function yet they are medical devices. Always handle them with care and practice hygiene. Keep your nails trimmed & never allow your contact lenses to come into contact with water.

Contact lenses that are FDA approved reduce the risk of infections to 99.99% if 100% healthy habits are observed.