Saline difficulties

[Green]

Recurring tendinitis makes squeezing saline bottles especially hard.
I've had to use Hypaclens pods, which costs me up to £500 per year.
I've asked Moorfields optometry if they could raise this with manufacturer's. Lots of people have musculoskeletal issues ie arthritis etc.

If the committee felt able to send a few emails to a few of the brands I'd be grateful.

[Anne Klepacz]

We can certainly try. There are a number of aids on the market to help people with arthritis or a weak grip, but it looks as though they're for the small eye drop bottles that I'm starting to have difficulties with. I don't know if any of them are big enough for a saline bottle.
https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/for-patie ... iance-aids
It might be worth asking your pharmacy if they have any suggestions.
The standard explanation from companies producing saline is that the plastic has to be hard as a softer material would risk sucking in contaminants and the solution would no longer be sterile.
Does anyone else have difficulty with the saline bottles? It would help if we had more voices.

[Green]

Thanks Anne, yes I've explored every single route, including gadgets. I actually use a lightweight mini size pair of pliers for the twist off caps!!!
The Total Care conditioning solution is a better shape and less rigid plastic than Boston Advance.

The Bausch & Lomb sensitive eyes saline used to be the most usable for me, I think because it was a wide nozzle, so more came out faster, therefore less squeeze, but they've discontinued it!!

Optometry agreed that I'm not alone.
We also explored large first aid sterile saline decanted into soft nozzled squeezy condiment bottle but it's not sterile so not safe to use.

If manufacturers of contact lens solutions could consider a single range musculoskeletal friendly with wider nozzles, less rigid plastic etc, it would do very well!