Wearing contact lenses can go to the swimming pool or go diving? If wearing goggles?
You may have heard of Amiba dysentery and have diarrhea, but do you know that the Amiba parasite will also run into human eyes and cause Amiba conjunctivitis? We all love the summer to the swimming pool or the seaside in summer, 19 this month, according to Taiwan news reports, there is a girl, because wearing glasses is not convenient, they wear contact lenses after swimming, eye pain and red eyes, a doctor was found to be infected with Amie Pakistan conjunctivitis.
According to the practicing ophthalmologist said, people often overlook the amoeba will hide in the pool, if you often do not contact lens cleaning and maintenance, and wearing contact lenses for swimming, bathing, or corneal trauma, contact with sewage, prone to infection of Acanthamoeba keratitis, if not treated, may cause eye blindness ulcer.Miba is very similar with other symptoms of conjunctivitis keratitis, have red eyes, photophobia, tearing, foreign body sensation and blurred vision and other circumstances, and easily lead to serious ocular immune inflammatory response, such as uveitis and glaucoma, cataract, and the eyes of patients there will be severe pain, serious can cause blindness.
According to the doctor for treatment of Acanthamoeba keratitis is not good, because the drugs only abroad, and for a long period, in addition to avoid wearing contact lenses for swimming, bathing, swimming pool, beach to best carry goggles, and avoid eye contact to the sewage, but the eyes feel a different shape, such as red eye, photophobia or feel eye pain and other symptoms, medical treatment must be treated as soon as possible. Do not for yourself, but hurt the window of our souls.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Forget to tell you, you can buy prescription goggles, though degree has little choice but to see things in the water can be completely clear.Then you don't have to take any chances.
