Post-LASIK Surgery: How to Care for Your Eyes

LASIK eye surgery is known for its great results and for eliminating or reducing the need for glasses or contacts. Patients rarely experience complications, and most are satisfied with the procedure’s outcome. At Six One Six Vision Center, our comprehensive eye exam can do more than determine if you need new glasses. After carefully assessing your eyes, we’ll know if you’re a good candidate for LASIK.

Read on to learn how to care for your eyes after LASIK eye surgery.

Follow Your Doctor’s Instructions

Your eye doctor will provide post-surgery care instructions after your procedure. Follow their recommendations, especially when it comes to medications and eye drops. Expect your surgeon to tell you what you should and shouldn’t do to ensure your eyes heal quickly. They may also give you protective eyeglasses or goggles that you should wear to sleep for a period of time.

Give Your Eyes Adequate Rest

Even if you feel energized after LASIK, you must give your eyes a break. As much as possible, don’t use your digital devices or read printed materials to avoid eye strain. Do your best not to rub your eyes because it can wrinkle the corneal flap your doctor created during the procedure. Also, don’t do strenuous activities, such as exercising and playing sports, for a few weeks to a month.

Don’t Take a Shower Immediately

Experts strongly recommend waiting at least a day after surgery to take a bath or shower. Be careful not to let water and soap touch your eyes while showering or bathing. Moreover, you should avoid going to swimming pools and saunas shortly after the procedure.

Go to Your Follow-Up Appointments

Your eye doctor will schedule a follow-up appointment the day following the procedure. They could ask to see you again in 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months. Your doctor could also set up another eye check six months post-LASIK. These follow-up visits will allow your specialist to see if your eyes are recovering well.

Let Six One Six Vision Center handle your eye care needs. Aside from stylish and quality eyeglass frames, we also offer ocular disease management services. Call us at (208) 514-1858 or complete schedule an appointment online anytime.

COVID-19

To our Six One Six Vision Center Families,

Our office is fully open to serve your eye care needs. We cannot wait to see you in our office again! With the health and safety of our team and patients at the forefront of our minds, the following changes have taken place while we all do our part to fight this pandemic:

We ask that if you are experiencing a fever, shortness of breathe, or a cough that you reschedule your visit at this time.

We are asking our patients to complete as much of the typical intake paperwork and collecting of insurance information electronically to reduce the amount of team members they need to be exposed to at the office.

We have very strict cleanliness procedures for anyone who comes in to our office at every point of their visit to lower risk of potential infection.

Now more than ever, we need to take care of ourselves, our families, and our communities as best we can, while practicing safe social distancing recommendations. We will get through these difficult times together, and I promise you our office and our team will be here to support you as best we can during these changes, and will be even stronger once we can return to normal care.

Be well, stay strong, take care of each other.

– Six One Six Vision Center Team

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