Quicktopic posts: Jan 2004

[sajeev]

Hi All,
After contacting fairy liquid HQ they expressed their objection in the use of there product for other not recommended use. Also they don't want there product name to be used in concetion with this in a public forum and they are looking in to were they stand legally.
My concern is for the weaker KC sufferers (lots of Down Syndrome people have KC), WHO MAY try this method of cleaning lenses putting their sight at risk, to save a few pennies. I think we shuld protect the weaker KC suffers from people who have no regard for peoples safety and have no sense of responsablity.

Thanks
PS. I don't want to get replies from who has already commented on their stand point. Rosemary have not commented, I wonder why ?

[jayuk76]

Has anyone here ever used Hydralate? its to dialate the pupil...ive been told to use it fr hydrops and it absolutely STINGS for about 10 seconds!...did others have this?

Jay

[Janet Manning]

Sajeev,
I hope your posting about contacting "Fairy' is a joke - if not you are taking this whole thing much too far. The word 'Fairy' was I'm sure used loosely to describe washing up liquid of any brand. I've used it with hard lenses in the past on the advice of both hospital and contact lens practitioner, to no ill effect. We do after all rinse it off with saline. I have also been advised in the past to use diluted baby shampoo on Q tips to rub my eyelid margins to clear blepharitis. Is washing up liquid so very different to shampoo?

Now let's have an end to this scaremongering as John suggested.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

[umbilica@umbilical.demon.]

Jay said:
Has anyone here ever used Hydralte? its to dialate the
pupil...ive been told to use it fr hydrops and it absolutely
STINGS for about 10 seconds!...did others have this?


I've had 4 hydrops now and haven't been prescribed this for any
of them.

Apparently, hospital practice does vary, and some hospitals
apparently prescribe pupil-dilation drops, and various other
things. Moorfields practice is not to give any dilation (or
hypertonic saline, etc) drops, on the grounds (as I understand
it) that they don't believe there is any proven benefit from
them.

The one sort of medication I was offered, by the Oxford Eye
Hospital over 20 years ago, was a mild pain-killer ointment. I
was a student at the time and not paying prescription charges,
and tried them - I found them very sticky and messy and of
minimal effect, and another time wouldn't bother with them, and
take some paracetamol or ibuprofen if the hydropsed eye was sore.
Personally, I am already far too light-sensitive already, so
the last thing I'd want to take was pupil-dilation drops which
increase light sensitivity, and at a time when the eye was
likely to be extra-sensitive anyway. The motivation, or so I've heard, for them is to encourage that eye to keep working and not become "lazy" - presumably this would only work if 1) the
clouding from the hydrops didn't spread so far across the cornea that no amount of pupil-dilation would let you see clearly past
it (as in my first 2 hydrops) and 2) you weren't in any case
having to wear a lens in the non-hydropsed eye (only) to be able to keep on living and working.

As I've said, different hospitals seem to have different views
and practices.

Rosemary

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Rosemary F. Johnson

[umbilica@umbilical.demon.]

Sorry you've been having the lurgy, Sue. And the sore eyes.

I often find I get sore eyes and reduced lens wearing times when I get a cold/flu/lurgy - and generally there's a time-lag, so
the worst of the sore eyes comes after the worst of the
disease. In my case it does improve when the flu, etc, clears
up, but sometimes with a delay. Hope yours does too, and before too long.

One thought is: remember to keep drinking plenty of water,
juice, etc. It's quite easy to get a tad dehydrated if you're
coughing and sneezing and getting a runny nose - and sweating
more than usual if you're running a temperature - and in cold
weather you don't feel so thirsty as when it's hot and sunny.
That could be adding to the dry eyes too.

Rosemary

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Rosemary F. Johnson

[Zollico@aol.com]

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[David Newman]

Susan Mason Wrote
Does anyone, especially anyone who wears scleral lenses, have problems with dry eyes???

At my november hospital appointment, my optometrist noted that my eyes were drier than expected across the middle of them. It was decided that, as I had had a bad day with my lenses that what to do about this would be looked into at my next appointment in february.

Everything had been ok until Boxing Day, when i got a really sore throat, blocked nose, headaches etc (bad cold) - cols synptoms have now gone however it has left me with dry and gritty eyes, which is rather frustrating as in the last 8 days i have only worn my lenses on 2 occasions, each for approx 4 hours.

A work colleague (my boss!!!)who probably doesn't understand 100%of my difficulties (and why i've been off sick for the last 3 days between Xmas & NewYear) has suggested LACRILUBE. The chemist has supplied my husband with a tube of this however warned that it wouldn't go vry well with my lenses - however as i'm not wearing my lenses at the moment, this didn't concern me too much.

Has anyone else used this or has anyone else any suggestions that may help?????????
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Hi Susan
I wear piggy back lenses and use Viscotears (polyacrylic acid) every evening which works wonders. You certainly can not wear soft lenses for two hours but I am unsure of the situation with hard lenses. It is a gel as opposed to drops and seems to give long term effects.

David N

[Andrew Bosanquet]

Dave in Wales said:

I'm going to make a picture on PSP to show ppl what I actually
see as I'm sure they never listen.

What is PSP and ppl?
I have tried to use the visual effects simulator at http://www.surgicaleyes.com/visual_effe ... ffects.htm but could not get it to produce the ring of light that I see from a point source.
Anyone else tried to simulate their vision effects?
Best wishes for the new year to everyone.
Andrew in Bath

[Jay76]

Rosemary thanks for the reply

I guess the pain and sewwling of the hydrps has now near enough gne. The blue lie effect in the crnea is also getting clearer

For the past 5 mornings I have wken up and theres NO Pain what s ever in the affected eye which is a gd send. If Rosemary r aone else can tell me; after the swelling has gone down and no pain exists how long does it take roughly for the smearing in the cornea to go away?

Jay

[BORG]

>
> Dave in Wales said:
>
> I'm going to make a picture on PSP to show ppl what I actually
> see as I'm sure they never listen.
>
> What is PSP and ppl?
> I have tried to use the visual effects simulator at
> http://www.surgicaleyes.com/visual_effe ... ffects.htm
> but could not get it to produce the ring of light that I see
> from a point source.
> Anyone else tried to simulate their vision effects?
> Best wishes for the new year to everyone.
> Andrew in Bath


PSP= Paint Shop Pro, a computer photo/art program

Ppl= People

HTH :)

Hope That Helps

More cut down computer speak

Dave in Wales




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