Getting to grips with soft contact lens handling

Abstract

Neil Retallic and Dr Manbir Nagra discuss the results of a major survey of patients concerning their challenges in handling soft contact lenses and consider how this may influence our initial instructions to patients to ensure future successful wear.

End‐of‐day assessment of asymptomatic versus highly symptomatic soft contact lens wearers

“…Other work has established that it is the length of time that a lens is worn rather than the time of day that CL wear started, which affects end-of-day discomfort. 12 Despite typical daily lens use of more than 12 h, 5,13,18 there are relatively few reports in the literature which investigated clinical performance after more than 8 h; presumably because of the logistical difficulties of organising clinical examinations at antisocial times for both investigators and participants alike. Little is known about the lens surface, ocular surface or tear film at the point just prior to lens removal following a full day of lens wear.…”