Contact Lens Risk

Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) affect over 1.7 million patients each year, causing almost 100,000 deaths annually in the United States alone (Johnson, 2010). According to the World Health Organization, HAIs are the most frequent adverse event in the healthcare industry. Fortunately, most of these infections can be prevented with one single intervention, proper hand hygiene (“The Evidence,” n.d.). Four out of five pathogens that cause illness are spread by direct contact. Proper hand hygiene eliminates these pathogens and helps to prevent cross-contamination and HAIs (Linton, 2015; “Hand Hygiene,” n.d.). Reduction of cross-contamination and HAIs improves patient outcomes, increases employee wellness, and lowers health care costs. Adherence to proper hand hygiene is the single most important safety measure in the health care setting. However, for many years compliance to proper hand hygiene in the healthcare industry has been dismally low. New and inventive measures must be implemented to increase compliance to proper hand hygiene and lower the rate of hospital-acquired infections.

In 1999, there were amendments to the Optician’s Act. The amendments aimed to provide optometrists with a wider scope of practice, which allowed them to have limited clinical management of non- sight-threatening conditions such as allergic and infective conjunctivitis. It was thought that this might have helped to reduce the burden on the National Health Service. (GOC rules and regulations. (2017)).

Individuals that wear glasses should ensure that there prescription is correct and there glasses are clean and free from any marks, care providers can

If that is to be the case, I and thousands of other SM demand that the DOD pay for my contacts, because the glasses they do pay for glasses are too cumbersome, unflattering, and when I wear them they severely affect my

Sof-Optics is a small (specialty-niche) player in a $155M contact-lens market. (Three competitors occupy 75% of this market (Bausch + Lomb (51%), American Optical (14%), Continuous Curve (10%); approximately twenty players (including Sof-Optics’ ~3%) occupy the remaining 25%.) This consumer space is already appreciable in size (~5M contact-lens wearers in 1980), and promises exponential growth in future years (only 10% of ~50M prospective lens-wearers in America have even tried soft contact lenses).

When observing, assisting, or leading a high school or undergraduate chemistry lab, the statement that is frequently said and heard is the reminder to put on safety goggles. Often times students will forget about wearing their goggles or they will place their goggles on their foreheads, instead of covering their eyes. The have been personal experiences where students will argue with the instructor about not wearing their goggles during an experiment. The distaste of the safety goggles typically comes from the comfortability of the goggles (1), and students will remove their goggles as soon as possible. Once an instructor notices the improper placement of the goggles, the whole lab hears the loud statement of “PUT ON YOUR GOGGLES PLEASE.” The students’ spines may tighten when hearing the reminder several times during a single experiment, but they should not blame the instructor. Wearing the appropriate eye protection correctly is

Healthcare associated infections have an impact on patients - how? Can be prevented greatly with compliance to hand hygiene protocols (REF).

Thesis - Its important to get your eyes checked yearly because you can’t tell what’s going on, until something goes wrong with your vison that you may have a problem.

Speaker Credibility: Through comprehensive research of the internet and general text, I have educated myself with reliable sources on the history and importance of sunglasses.

Within the essay I am going to discuss whether good hand hygiene practices are the single most important factor in preventing cross infection. Some may argue for this statement others against. Jeanes A (2005) refers to the NMC code of professional conduct (2004) who state that you must act to identify and minimise risk to patients and clients.

Contact lenses are a simple solution for improving your vision. They are a great alternative to glasses but come with their own host of problems if they are not used properly. Contact lenses work best when the eyes are properly lubricated or moist. If your eyes dry out while wearing your contact lens, this will lead to discomfort and irritation. The tears in your eyes act as a barrier between the contact lens and your actual eyeball. Without this lubricated barrier, you are left with two dry surfaces that are rubbing against each other. The pain that this creates is often immense. As a result, there are a few tips you should use in order to prevent your eyes from drying out while wearing contact lenses.

Errors in our project include the idea that daily contacts are meant to be used throughout the day and then thrown away at the end of the day. However, we placed these used contacts in a solution overnight like bi-weekly and monthly contacts are supposed to be cleaned. This could definitely have created problems in our experiment since these daily contacts may collect more bacteria. Also, Clear Care is a solution that is only meant to be used in a specific case so that the solution can bubble, oxidize, and neutralize. So this could have created issues since we placed all of the four solutions in a regular, flat contact case. Another error that could have had effects was the differing amounts of agar in each petri dish since it was not exact

D. Before using the glass electrodes, they must be washed in warm soapy water and put in the UV steriliser to ensure they are clean and free from bacteria. After the treatment they should be washed and wiped over with disinfectant and sterilised before being used again.

However, behaviors such as topping off solution and swimming with contacts in are examples of bad contact lens hygiene. While it is difficult to determine the percentage of Americans who practice bad contact lens hygiene, it is easy to identify the amount of eye infections recorded and relate each case to how an individual cares for his or her contacts. In 2015, 40.9 million adults were estimated to wear contacts according to the Centers for Disease Control. While just simply wearing contacts makes an individual 10 times more likely to contract an eye infection (Reddy), unhealthy contact hygiene can increase this likelihood severely. Eye infections in the United States have increased since the 1980’s and between 1980 and 1988, 85% of bacterial eye infection cases that were reported, all involved contact lenses (Joslin, et., 169). Even though contacts and contact products have improved and the chances of these products contracting microorganisms is lower than before, people who participate in unhealthy contact lens behavior increase their chances of developing infections just as equally as people did in 1980 (Joslin, et.,

Over half the people in the United States wear glasses or contact lenses. Optometrist, also known as “Eye Doctors” or “O.D.’s, have to provide there services in order to meet the demands. Optometrists have to be well-educated and friendly people.