Contact lens complications
Complications due to contact lenses
are low (roughly 5 to 10 per 10,000 per year).
The most serious risk of infectious
order
INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS
Before the corneal abscess, which
can be of microbial, fungal or parasitic origin.
The germ is found by culture
collection
It is a medical emergency treatment
the prognosis depends mainly on early diagnosis.
- Keratitis (see this term), whose
onset is sudden with lacrimation, and which bacteria most often involved are:
Pseudomonas, Proteus and Serratia.
Treatment with topical antibiotics
should use special eye drops high antibiotic concentration and prepared specifically.
Mycotic keratitis have less abrupt
onset.
They are favored by the poor
condition of the lenses and the presence of diabetes.
- For the record include parasitic
abscess caused by certain amoeba Acanthamoeba in particular, are daunting.
Amoeba is in this tap water (30 to
50 per liter).
It remains essential not to use tap
water for lens care and remove them in case of bathroom pool.
Treatment with specific eye drops
will be needed as soon as possible.
COMPLICATIONS ALLERGIC
These are the most common risks:
- It may be an allergy to cleaning
products that can occur after several years of use.
The subject complained of discomfort
or irritation from the installation of lenses is improving gradually as time
passes, because the traces of the cleaning product are disappearing.
Changing the maintenance product
brings healing.
- Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis is
allergic.
It is specific for contact lens
wearers.
It comes after several years of lens
wear and especially in soft contact lens wearers.
The irritation occurs rather late in
the day to kind of discomfort which sometimes forces the subject to remove
their lenses prematurely.
The lens is often the seat of
abnormal mobility.
Ophthalmologic examination revealed
the buds in the upper eyelids, which can have a diameter of 0.5 to 1.5 mm.
The treatment combines allergy eye
drops, frequent replacement lenses, reducing the time that the lenses, and the
change of cleaning products.
The use of daily disposable soft
contact lenses improves.
symptomatology, as a new lens every
day without cleaning product is used.
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