A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a ...

DOCTORS found parasites burrowed into a woman’s cornea after she made a common mistake while swimming in a pool. Maureen ...

Maureen Cronin was teaching small children in the area how to swim but refrained from to taking her contact lenses out, which ...

Maureen Cronin, a New York lifeguard, nearly lost her vision in one eye after contracting acanthamoeba keratitis by wearing ...

When managing an irritated cornea, choosing among fortified antibiotics, oral antivirals, anti-inflammatories or combination ...

A 53-year-old woman has almost lost her sight in one eye after being diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) - a rare ...

OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis ...

Objective: To report the therapeutic practice patterns of silicone hydrogel (SiH) bandage soft contact lenses (BSCL) and the resultant rate of microbial keratitis (MK). Methods: A retrospective ...

Changing to dailies is worth considering: One study found that people who wear reusable contact lenses are about four times more at risk of developing acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare eye infection ...

Ointments have the advantage of increased dwell time in the eye, but often patients and parents ... the other has been demonstrated. Microbial keratitis is usually treated as it is for adults ...