Do your contact lens patients a favor and recommend they also have a pair of prescription spectacles to wear when their eyes are resting.

According to Susan Taub, M.D., Chicago, Ill., contact lenses aren’t meant to be worn 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Corneas need to breathe. Every hour today that your patient doesn’t wear contact lenses is an hour in the "eye bank," to be redeemed later in life, when the patient can wear contact lenses longer.