Baby Contact Lens. Soft or Hard Lens?!
Question: Baby Contact Lens. Soft or Hard Lens?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHnoJP4t7I
Do you think the mother put in soft lenses or hard lenses? How come she could slide into baby eyes so easily?
Answers:
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That is a soft contact lens. Infants are never given hard contact lenses.
The contact lenses go in easily because she has obviously had LOTS of PRACTICE doing this.
As the caption on the video says, since her children were born with cataracts in the lenses of their eyes (called congenital cataracts). These types of cataracts needs to be removed very soon in life because they will cause amblyopia (or a lazy eye) because the infant cannot see through the cataracts because they are too dense.
When you remove the lens, you remove a huge part of the focusing system. An infant cannot see clearly without a lens either. But the cataract had to come out. So the solution is to wear an appropriate-powered contact lens to make up for the power that the eye is now lacking so the infant can see clearly. Roughly, these lenses are around +15.00 in power.
I am an optometry intern.