Holi 2021: Here’s How to Protect Your Eyes While Playing With Colours
3 years, 8 months ago

Holi 2021: Here’s How to Protect Your Eyes While Playing With Colours

News 18  

The fun-filled Holi festival is around the corner and so are the celebrations usually filled with gulaal, colours, water guns and water balloons. Because of the noisy and the spirited nature of the celebrations, those wearing contact lenses might even forget that they are actually wearing lenses making it harder for themselves and their eyes, says Tushar Grover, Medical Director of Vision Eye Centre in New Delhi. The increased use of synthetic colours instead of natural colour in recent years makes it even more critical for people wearing contact lenses to be watchful. The harmful ingredients used in Holi colours Most of the colours going around today usually are synthetic in nature containing toxic material such as industrial dyes and other harmful chemicals. How Holi colours affect contact lenses and eyes For those wearing contact lenses, they should know that the lenses absorb colours.

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Hindustan Times  

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Holi 2021: Here’s How to Celebrate the Festival in an Eco-Friendly Way

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Holi 2021: Here's why you should be careful if you wear contact lenses

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3 years, 9 months ago

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India Today  

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