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No, they will probably not if you follow your eye care practitioner´s instructions during the treatment. Contact lens use is safe if we care and clean and maintain our contact lenses properly.

Yes, allergic conjunctivitis is more common in children than in adults. A red eye can be the result of a contaminated lens or expression of an allergy to the contact lens solution. If the allergic reaction is due to the contact lens solution, the eye care practitioner can advise what other solution will suit better.

Yes, this contact lens is manufactured with a great range of powers (up to -15D).

Yes, but only if astigmatism is lower than -0.75D or -1.00D.

It depends on the patient’s genetics, individual characteristics and environment.

When the user can insert and remove the contact lenses on his own, the patient is ready. At 6 years old, for example, we will need collaboration and commitment from the parents. Several studies demonstrated that children even from early age of 8 years old are capable of successfully manage lens insertion, removal and care. […]

We cannot predict a person’s intolerance to contact lenses in advance.

If the patient is at risk of progressing myopia, myopia will eventually increase and therefore the risk of developing sight-threatening complications will increase too.

If, once the patient is stable and has enough age, the patient undergoes a refractive surgery, it is important to remember that the rest of the eye’s structures remain myopic. That’s why the retina might still suffer a retinal detachment or a myopic macular degeneration, why glaucoma is still a possibility or why cataracts might […]

If the lens is suspected to be under the upper eyelid, it may also help to bring the lens in to view by looking downward as far as possible. Another technique is to gently massage through the eyelid down towards the cornea or you can try to lift or “flip” the eyelid to make the […]