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QUESTION

After wearing my contact lenses for a while, I have got the feeling that my eyes are becoming dry.

ANSWER

When one senses the unpleasant feeling of “dry eyes”, which leads to reduce the time lenses are worn and to increase the frequency of blinking (eyelid winking), we can reasonably think about different problems:

- real “ocular dryness” (or, as to say, insufficient tears). In order to correctly evaluate this problem, it is necessary a serious medical examination;

- the internal geometry of the lens (inner shape) is not suitable to the patient’s ocular situation. In this case, a visit to the authorized optician of the contact lenses is needed;

- the lens “interefe” with the natural mechanism that controls and stimulates the frequency of the blinking (eyelid winking) and the patient must be “taught” how to restore the normal frequency of the blinking. To this aim, specific exercises exist which the optician must adjust to each single patient.

QUESTION

Why my contact lenses annoy me after only 3 hours?

ANSWER

Many problems which come up while wearing contact lenses stem from poor preliminary tests. And this is also why a Patient may experience annoyance after just 3 hours of wearing contact lenses. In fact, the purpose of these preliminary tests is to find out the best technical solution.
It is true that a period of “physiological adaptation” is necessary, but it is also true that such period (at least for soft lenses) should be more or less a week. Once this period is over (unless there are evident improvements), it is good that the Optician checks the whole technical aspect of the adaptation.

QUESTION

We are frequently asked about the correct use and accommodation of contact lenses.

ANSWER

Here below are the legal and technical procedures to follow:

1. medical check-up, which is necessary to evaluate whether the patient is suitable to the use of contact lenses;

2. technical control (on behalf of the Optician), to decide which kind of lenses to choose;

3. technical assistance to the patient to teach him how to use and maintain his own contact lenses;

4. follows-up to make sure that the use of contact lenses is not causing damages or problems to the eyes.

This is the procedue highly recommended by all professional associations of both oculists and opticians. Sometimes, to shorten times, one or two steps are skipped and that is when problems come up which are “erroneously” attributed to contact lenses.