Tori Spelling has revealed that she risked going blind after sleeping in the same contact lenses for 20 days.
Now, the American actor is warning those who use contact lenses about the importance of removing and changing the lenses regularly.
If you are a contact lenses wearer, then you should definitely be on top of how regularly you change them and making sure they are properly clean before they go anywhere near your eyeballs.
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But, it can be so easy to complete forget about them and leave them in night after night.
Sometimes, you might not even realise that they are in, and that is the damaging part of it really, as Spelling found out first hand.
Recently, Spelling was spotted wearing a rather dazzling pink eye patch, which led to many fans questioning as to why the Scary Movie 2 star was wearing it.
Speaking on the 9021OMG podcast, Spelling revealed why the eye patch was necessary.
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"It’s my fault. I did this to myself," she admitted after she was asked by co-host Jennie Garth what had happened to her eye.
"I have contacts but I wear daily ones. And, at the end of the day, kids, whatever, I can make all the excuses I want.
"I don’t take them out. I sleep in them. It’s not healthy and you’re supposed to change them." she said.
And because of this, an ulcer had developed, so hence the eyepatch.
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Spelling then told her co-hosts that she would often go 20 days without taking out her contact lenses, which left them in utter shock.
"I know you guys. It’s shaming." she said.
The reality TV star added that she was 'totally transparent' with the eye doctors about her bad habits with contacts.
According to Spelling, the doctor had reportedly told her that she was 'lucky to get away with it', considering the damaging impact she had already done to her eyes.
Symptoms of a corneal ulcer often includes redness of the eye, severe pain or soreness, the feeling of having something in your eye, blurred vision and pus discharge to name a few, according to American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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But you might be thinking why exactly is it dangerous to sleep in contact lenses?
According to Healthline, it is because it 'drastically increases your risk of eye infection'. This is because the contact prevents the eye from getting 'oxygen and hydration it needs to fight a bacterial or microbial invasion'.
According to the NHS, people who wear contact lenses are more at risk of getting them, which carry the risk of 'permanent sight loss through scarring' if not seen too immediately.
But, luckily for Spelling, her eye is 'improving' and she is planning to switch to 30-day contact lenses once she is healed.
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“I got lucky this time,” she said. “Not going to take it for granted.”
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