1. Safer lenses for snoozing.
- Author
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K. S.
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CONTACT lenses , *EYE care , *LENSES - Abstract
The article reports on sleeping with contact lenses on. Whatever the culprit, sleeping in your contact lenses can lead to a dangerous eye infection. Now a new line of extended-wear lenses--made from silicone hydrogel--makes that occasional lapse safer. Scientists from England's Royal Eye Hospital in Manchester studied 415 patients who wore different kinds of contact lenses and found that those who slept in silicone hydrogel lenses were five times less likely to develop a severe infection than were people who snoozed in the other types. The porous material allows 50% more oxygen to reach the cornea, maintaining better eye health, says study author Philip Morgan, PhD. The new lenses--available from Bausch & Lomb and CIBA Vision--cost about twice as much as standard ones.
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- 2005