Independent debunks contact lens misconceptions

Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care has carried out a survey into the misinformation and myths around contact lenses in order to change the nation’s perceptions.

As part Contact Lens Awareness Month in June, the independent surveyed over 2,000 adults in the UK and highlighted other fraudulent bits of trivia, such as the short memory length of goldfish.

Scrivens said it wanted to highlight some fun falsehoods while noting that much of what people believe about contact lenses could be out of date.

A Scrivens spokesperson said: ‘For many of us, we will have believed these titbits of incorrect information to be true since childhood, so it’s hard to accept we’ve been wrong for decades.