by Joel Harrison
19. February 2012 19:29
According to John O’Hara, the President of LensAlert!, promoting the use of daily contact lenses instead of other lenses is not the best way to ensure patient safety. In a letter the expert wrote to Contact Lenses Today, he states that focusing on education (by eye care professionals) and improving product labels would bring much better results than switching to daily contact lenses.
O’Hara argues that, since a number of contact lens users are not fully aware of the consequences of handling contact lenses inappropriately, they will continue do such dangerous things as swimming or sleeping in lenses, or removing them with unwashed hands after switching to daily contacts.
As patients usually visit their eye care practitioners not often than once a year, O’Hara believes that including special booklets with information about lens care and maintenance in contact lens and solution packaging is the most effective way of educating them. This is because the frequency with which the average patient would have contact with information about lens care would increase from six to ten times.
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