are contact lenses good for the eyes or do they have side effects?

[winny]

more than 200 million people around the globe wear contact lenses; some for fashion, some to correct bad sight and other purposes. Well, I love to see people who look good with some lens but I keep on wondering if there are some side effects associated with wearing contacts. I wouldn't mind wearing one some day. Someone enlighten me, my esteemed friends in cozay!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contact lenses are not good for the eyes because you were born without contact lenses. We wear contact lenses because we cannot see very well and the contact lenses help us see a bit clearer. If you have myopia, hypermetropia or Astigmatism then you can use contact lenses to better your vision. You are good to go without contact lenses if you have good vision than to go with contact lenses even though you have good sight.

[mariefe18]

Contact lenses tends to irritate the eyes and scratches it that's why its not advisable to wear it all the time and to sleep with it. The only thing good about it is that you don't have to worry about the way you look so basically its more of aesthetic effect.

[penelope]

Contact lenses have advantages and disadvantages when using it.
the advantages are you don't need to wear eyeglasses and it is
fashionable and trendy kind. but the disadvantages are you can't go to sleep with it, you might lose your eyesight. you also need to clean it once in a while.