New contact lens will cut down on eye infections

New contact lens will cut down on eye infections

Those who wear contact lenses constantly deal with the hassle of using wetting solutions and often have to wrestle with their lenses. They risk infection if they are improperly handled, a threat that surfaced in a big way in May 2006 when Bausch and Lomb removed its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution product after many users reported serious eye infections. Now traveling with contact lens solutions also has become difficult and at $12 a bottle it is expensive to replace in every city. A new product from Clearlab hopes to be on the market within the next year or two called AquaSoftSingles. The single-use lenses are packaged in a container approximately the thickness of a dime or about eight times thinner that the typical blister packs now used for disposable lenses. The user peels off the top and the lens pops up so it can be easily placed on a finger for insertion.

Using a contact lens such as Aqua Soft and disposing of it daily could help reduce eye infections. One of the most common infections associated with contract lens use is caused by the fungus Fusarium, but that is much more prevalent in warm, humid climates.

Source: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_4468545

Michael Monheit, Esq. Anapol Schwartz Weiss Cohan Feldman & Smalley are working on ReNu lawsuits against Bausch & Lomb.