by Joel Harrison
3. September 2010 14:13
Microbial Keratitis is one of the most severe complications associated with contact lens wear, and in spite of the efforts of numerous research centres around the world, there is still a need for further studies in the area.
In their most recent study, RL Chambers and co-workers examined 1,276 charts of patients wearing soft contact lenses, finding that – generally speaking – in clinical practice, the risk factors of ocular inflammation and infections do not differ significantly from the ones from previous prospective clinical trials. Contact lens wearers with high refractive errors and patients under the age of 25 are the most prone to the majority of such conditions, including microbial keratitis.
Loretta B. Szczotka-Flynn, in an article in the latest edition of Contact Lenses Today, concludes that, taking those findings into consideration, eye care practitioners should provide high ametropes with glasses to wear so that they can take a break from using contact lenses from time to time, and promote daily contact lenses among the youngest patients, as the study finds no major complications, other than lid irritation, associated with such lenses.
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