Storing Your Contact Lenses Without The Proper Solution
I personally know that you can't always be prepared for everything, and if you are wearing contacts the times you go out at night, chances are that you aren't spending all of those nights in your own bedroom. Even so, you will have to take the contacts out unless you are wearing continuous wear contacts, and for that reason you should know how you can store them when you don't have the solution with you.
I tried to carry the solutions with me at some point, but since I am a man, I don't have a big purse where I can put the bottles, so instead I just found out how I can do it without the liquids.
So if you aren't storing the contact lenses in the proper solution, the lens will suffer quite a lot of damage, and the next day when you put it on it will be dirty and foggy - you don't want that. If you keep them in your eyes the whole night, chances are you will get an eye infection or suffer from corneal oxygen deficiency and have serious headache and eye ache. You don't want that either.
First of all you need to ask someone if there is saline solution, distilled water and salt water where you could store the lenses. These can all be used for this purpose, although they aren't as good as the original solutions. The saline is the best choice that you have here, and all you need to do is to store them as you would in your regular solutions. If you can't get it, you will always have the option to go to the market and see if they have it - some all night stores have even the correct solutions, but you don't necessarily need to get a big bottle for just this occasion.
If you don't feel like going to the store at night, then you can always distill your water and have it done that way. If you don't know how to do this then here is a short explanation for this.
First of all you need a pot where you can heat the water. Then you need to have a lid that you put on the pot, but not completely - it has to overlap at least a few inches and come off the side. Then you place a glass, or a jar under the lid where it comes over the pot. Then you heat the water, and as it reaches the boiling point, there is only h2o that is evaporation, getting caught on the lid and then cooling back down and falling in the glass. This is as clear as it gets. You can even add a teaspoon of salt per eight ounces of water if you are ready to distill that much.
The reason why you should never use tap water right out from the tap is the bacteria that it contains. It also has a lot of residue chemicals from the cleaning process. When you store contacts in this type of water, chances are that a bacteria called acanthamoeba keratitis will cause your a serious infection the next time you put the contacts on.