1 2 Week Disposable Contact Lenses

Weekly disposable lenses include daily wear and extended wear lenses. Extended wear lenses may be worn overnight, and overnight use may reduce the life of the lens. Ultimately your eye care practitioner decides how long you should use extended wear lenses.

Extended wear lenses use silicon hydrogels. Silcon is permeable to oxygen allowing greater flow of oxygen to the eye. Water content in this lens type is reduced. Acuvue Oasys and Acuvue Advance are both weekly and silicone hydrogel based lenses, however, only Oasys is designed for overnight use. The use of silicon creates stiffer lenses, which may be more difficult for patient fittings. Weekly disposable lenses may be prescribed for one or two week use. Usage period largely depends on comfort level.

Providing wearers replace this type of lens according to eye doctors’ directions, symptoms should be significantly reduced compared to longer term lenses. Popular 1-2 week disposable lenses are made by Acuvue, Biomedics, CibaVision, Focus, Bausch & Lomb and Coopervision.