Saturday, September 1, 2012

Why do my contact lens get cloudy (on the inside) after I cry?

So, I've noticed this for years, but I don't really know the reason so I'm hoping someone here can feed my curiosity. Whenever I cry (not that often, but you know, it happens), my contact lens get cloudy on the inside (the part touching my eyeball) and the only way to fix it is to take them out and rinse them with saline. Even weirder though, AFTER I cry, for like four or five hours, my contacts keep re-clouding themselves. Does this happen to others? Is it protein in my tears or something else? I wear night & day contacts now, but this happened with a previous brand of disposable contacts too.
>>> Why do my contact lens get cloudy (on the inside) after I cry?