can you wear contacts for an MRI?


i have to get an MRI right after school but i wear my contacts everyday.. will they make me take them out for the MRI

  1. lil
    December 17th, 2011 at 02:11 | #1
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    No, you only have remove things that are metal or magnetic for an MRI because the imaging process uses a magnetic field.

    Just don’t wear anything metal.
    For example, if you had been working with iron filings that day and, without realising it, had a small piece of an iron filing in your eye, when you go into an MRI machine the magnetic field would attract the iron filing and could cause it to burrow through parts of your eye and eyelid out towards the scanner. This is why you cannot have an MRI if you’ve recently been working with any material like this. Plastic is not affected in this way and so contacts are completely safe.

  2. LadyLynn
    December 17th, 2011 at 02:58 | #2
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    If the MRI is of your brain, ask them. Otherwise, it’s not a problem. :)

  3. Tammy B
    December 17th, 2011 at 03:46 | #3
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    Contact lenses are 100% okay. We wouldn’t even ask about them; however you will be required to remove all metal objects so try not to wear lots of jewelry. Nothing like credit cards, id cards, cell phones or any electronic should enter the scan room. The magnet is always on and can damage those things. You will be given a locker prior to the exam to put things in for safe keeping. Don’t worry if you having any questions ask the technologist they will be happy to answer them for you.

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