Contact lenses?!
Question:
Contact lenses?
Are there any side effects to wearing contact lenses? Are there any dangerous long terms effects, or is it completely safe?
Answers:
Complications due to contact lens wear affect roughly 4% of contact lens wearers each year.Excessive wear of contact lenses, particularly overnight wear, is associated with most of the safety concerns.Problems associated with contact lens wear may affect the eyelid, the conjunctiva, the various layers of the cornea, and even the tear film that covers the outer surface of the eye.
1. Eyelid:Ptosis
2. Conjunctiva:
- Contact dermatitis
- Giant papillary conjunctivitis
- Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis
3. Cornea:
- Epithelium : Corneal abrasion , Corneal erosion , Corneal ulcer , Hypoxia
- Stroma : Infection and keratitis (Bacteria , Protozoa: Acanthamoeba , Fungal: Fusarium ) , Contact lens acute red eye (CLARE) , Keratoconus
- Endothelium
I'v been use soft lense for about 13 years now, i got a lot of advantages, like, my myopia didn't progress, etc.
The only side effect was about 10 years ago when my eye swollen. But that because i use it for about a month without cleans them.
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