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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @01:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-can't-unsee-that dept.

Like every October, health authorities and medical organizations want to remind you that the decorative, over-the-counter lenses are not only illegal, they're also terrible for your eyes. And they're not telling tall tales.
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Just on Tuesday, USA Today reported the case of a Cleveland woman who got decorative lenses stuck to her eyeballs. The lenses were supposed to turn her brown eyes blue but instead made them swollen and red. She had to have them removed in an emergency room.
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Patient 12, on the other hand, was not so lucky. After buying cat-eye lenses at a flea market, the 26-year-old man developed a severe, painful infection called Acanthamoeba keratitis. The infection is caused by a free-living amoeba running rampant in the cornea, which can be blinding—as it was in this case. He ended up needing a corneal transplant, and three months afterwards his vision was still 20/200, which is considered legally blind.
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If you really want to change the look of your eye, the FDA emphasizes that it's very important to buy FDA-approved decorative lenses through your eye doctor or another reputable vendor—with your prescription.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/heres-why-you-should-never-use-decorative-contact-lenses-in-graphic-pictures/
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/contact-lenses/list-contact-lenses


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by EvilSS on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:27PM (3 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:27PM (#914206)

    So Idon't see what FDA approved has to do with anything.

    It can have a lot to do with it. Certifying the manufacturing facility to make sure the lenses you get are not already harboring microbes for one. Another is the materials, making sure they safe and don't encourage bacterial colonization or make it difficult to clean the lenses properly (excessively porous, for example).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:34PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:34PM (#914211)

    make sure the lenses you get are not already harboring microbes for one.

    You should always rinse them off with saline anyway.

    • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:43PM (1 child)

      by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:43PM (#914217) Journal

      Which won't do anything if their porosity means the bacteria can remain attached to them despite the rinsing.

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      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 31 2019, @06:03PM (#914261)

        And even soaking them in acid won't do anything if they are made out of formaldehyde! Thank god for the FDA or people would be putting random objects in their eyes. Oh wait, those same people are doing that anyway. The FDA does nothing.