{"id":4003,"date":"2016-08-19T09:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:01:23","slug":"for-petes-sake-dont-sleep-or-swim-in-your-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"For Pete&#8217;s Sake, Don&#8217;t Sleep Or Swim In Your Contact Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katherine Hobson for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Contact lenses are so ubiquitous \u2014 about 41 million people in the U.S. wear them \u2014 that it&#8217;s easy to forget that they&#8217;re actual medical devices, with small but real medical risks.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/08\/18\/490490227\/for-pete-s-sake-don-t-sleep-or-swim-in-your-contact-lenses?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=33153352&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8y8xNH6Hvfsd0l1LwSUSnHVDGEZAFJ-krTIeve5XP3m9111k8ih8HoF19cMmsURb9IpG2sepmk2fh0V8lh_LC9rWcymw&amp;_hsmi=33153352\" target=\"_blank\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katherine Hobson for NPR) Contact lenses are so ubiquitous \u2014 about 41 million people in the U.S. wear them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}