{"id":90298,"date":"2019-05-05T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/eye-doctor-shares-graphic-photos-to-warn-against-sleeping-in-contacts"},"modified":"2019-05-05T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:02:39","slug":"eye-doctor-shares-graphic-photos-to-warn-against-sleeping-in-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/eye-doctor-shares-graphic-photos-to-warn-against-sleeping-in-contacts","title":{"rendered":"Eye Doctor Shares Graphic Photos to Warn Against Sleeping in Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eye-doctor-shares-graphic-photos-to-warn-against-sleeping-in-contacts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might be tempting to not take your contacts off before bed, however, graphic images of an eye ulcer that formed when someone slept with their soft lenses might make you think twice about it.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Vollmer, an eye doctor who works at the Vita Eye Clinic in Shelby, North Carolina, posted stomach-churning photos of a patient he recently treated, who had a cultured pseudomonas ulcer from wearing their contacts when they slept, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/05\/03\/eye-doctor-warns-against-sleeping-in-contact-lenses-with-graphic-images\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The New York Post<\/em> reported<\/a>. Vollmer shared the graphic images on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VitaEyeClinic\/posts\/2330026863723870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> and urged people to think about the harmful consequences of sleeping with contacts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VitaEyeClinic\/posts\/2330026863723870\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/eye-doctor-shares-graphic-photos-to-warn-against-sleeping-in-contacts-1785877\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be tempting to not take your contacts off before bed, however, graphic images of an eye ulcer that formed when someone slept with their soft lenses might make you think twice about it. Patrick Vollmer, an eye doctor who works at the Vita Eye Clinic in Shelby, North Carolina, posted stomach-churning photos of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}