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Contact lenses, both prescription and cosmetic, can be bought from any store, without proper knowledge on usage and maintenance. Dr. Nwosu Chidiebere, an optometrist specialised in prescription glasses and contact lenses, said wrong use of contact lenses could lead to … Read more via The...

An eye doctor from North Carolina posted graphic images to warn people against sleeping in their contact lenses. It might be tempting to not take your contacts off before bed, however, graphic images of an eye ulcer that formed when someone slept with their soft … Read more via Geek.com...

Sleeping in contact lenses once in a while: how bad can it really be? It’s this lax attitude scientists are trying to combat by revealing horror stories caused by patients being careless. In one case highlighted in the paper published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, a 57-year-old man wore...

(HealthDay News) — Contact lens wearers everywhere need to be on the lookout for a rare, but potentially blinding, eye infection, British researchers warn. In southeast England, cases of the infection, called Acanthamoeba keratitis, have tripled since 2011, a new study found. The illness is …...