How to Find a Lost Contact Lens

What to Do If You Can’t See

For people with bad vision, the most immediate concern when you lose one of your contacts might be that you can’t see! To make it easier, use your phone. By turning on its camera and then putting a couple of inches in front of your face, you’ll be able to see the room around you—at least well enough to look for your missing contacts!

How Find a Lost Contact Lens

It sounds counterintuitive, but the best thing to do if you’ve lost a contact is to turn out all the lights. Yes, really! Then grab a flashlight (or use your phone again) to shine the light over the area where you lost the contact. Continue in a slow sweep until you see a glint—there’s that darned thing! The contact will reflect back the light, unlike everything else around it.

Lost Contact Last Resort

If you’ve tried everything and you can’t stand crawling around, one-eyed, any longer, there’s an ultimate contact-finding solution you can try: Get an old nylon stocking or piece of pantyhose and secure it over the end of your vacuum hose using a rubber band. Then run your vacuum where you think you lost the contact. The power of the vacuum will suck it up, but the lens will stick to the stocking.

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