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Allergy to Contact Lens Solutions

After using a contact lens solution for a long time, possibly years, you may become suddenly allergic to it. The offender is usually the preservative a chemical that prevents the growth of bacteria and other germs. The federal Drug administration (FDA) requires that all eye drops and solutions intended for more than one time use contain a preservative. The requirement applies to all sterilizing, cleaning, and storage solutions.

Symptoms

The first symptoms of allergies are likely to be itching and burning in your eyes and a decreasing tolerance to wearing the contact lenses. Later, your eyes may become red, and stay re even after the lenses have out for a while. Other symptoms include swelling of the injunctive (the membrane over the white of the eye), small lumps under the eyelid, and a mucus discharge your contact lenses may be smudged, and coated with deposits that increase in quality almost daily.

Treatment

As a first step, stop wearing your contact lenses, at least for a little while. You may be given a prescription for an anti-allergic eye drop to be used until the allergic reaction quiets down.

When your eyes do clear up, you will have t9o take care of your contact lenses in a different way, completely avoiding the offending chemicals, which are most commonly chimerical, chlorhexidine, or some form of sorbet, such as ascorbic acid. We will help you choose both a cold sterilizing and lens cleaning method that is free of those chemicals, or an allergy free heat sterilizing method using preservative free saline. This is available in several forms.