Contact Lens Purchase Is Easy, But Remember The Basics

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Health )



Contact lenses have, without doubt, been useful in treating refractive problems and many eye diseases. They have been used in a number of ways: as a means to compensate for optical errors, to improve appearance, as an ocular bandage, as means to deliver therapeutic drugs, or as protective covering.

Yet contact lenses also have disadvantages. They exert repeated pressure on the surface of your eye, disturb the flow of your tears in their cleansing action on your eyes, and impair immune responses in your eye through chronic irritation. Finally, contact lenses may mask some types of ocular illness or make them difficult to diagnose.

When you make a contact lens purchase, you should not forget that contact lenses may cause complications since they pose a constant disruption in the normal functioning and immune defenses of your eye.

The steady decrease in the cost of contact lenses, the regular promotion of discount contact lenses in contact lens sales, the ease by which you can make contact lens purchases online, and the introduction of disposable lenses, such as accuvue contact lens, may have lulled wearers into believing that contact lens optics is a routine matter. Or, you may have begun to think that contact lens purchase and use are a retail business like any other.

You should not forget that the fitting of contact lenses is a highly disciplined craft; it demands the highest expertise of your ophthalmologist and optician. In addition, the physical specification and manufacture of the lenses are intricate technical processes.

Only when the specific technical problems associated with contact lens use have been resolved, the unnecessary risks avoided, and possible contraindications neutralized, should the contact lenses be handed over to you. Your doctor should make certain that you care for the lenses properly and that you know the problems and complications that may arise with improper use.


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