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• Flushing your contact lenses down the drain is adding plastic waste ... - USA TODAY

  Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:59:55 GMT

  USA TODAY

  Flushing your contact lenses down the drain is adding plastic waste ... USA TODAY Up to 20 percent of wearers aren't tossing their old lenses into waste containers, opting instead for disposal in sinks and toilets. An ASU study found that after ... Plastic pollution: 'Stop flushing contact lenses down the loo' - BBC ...BBC News Before You Flush Your Contact Lenses, You Might Want to Know ThisNew York Times The environmental cost of contact lenses - Phys.orgPhys.Org The Atlantic -Inverse -Arizona State University -Bausch + Lomb all 38 news articles »

  
  

• Woman finds contact lens that'd been lodged in her eye for 28 YEARS - Mashable

  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:17:00 GMT

  Mashable

  Woman finds contact lens that'd been lodged in her eye for 28 YEARS Mashable Is there anything more annoying than losing a contact lens? A woman in the UK thought hers fell out until doctors found it embedded in her eye decades later. A recent BMJ Case Report detailed the 42-year-old woman's horrific experience. She had visited ... A contact lens was embedded in woman's eyelid for 28 yearsCNN Woman Gets Contact Lens Stuck In Eye For 28 YearsHuffPost Doctors Found a 28-Year-Old Contact Lens Hidden in Woman's EyeThrillist CBS News -Allure Magazine -BMJ Case Reports -The BMJ all 267 news articles »

  
  

• She Lost Her Contact Lens 28 Years Ago. It Was Stuck In Her Eyelid the Whole Time - TIME

  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:12:23 GMT

  TIME

  She Lost Her Contact Lens 28 Years Ago. It Was Stuck In Her Eyelid the Whole Time TIME When a U.K. woman went to the doctors with a swelling in her upper left eyelid, she didn't expect the cause to date back to a contact lens she thought fell out 28 years before. An MRI scan of the mystery lump revealed the existence of a cyst, so ... She lost a contact lens playing badminton. Doctors found it in her eye 28 years laterMiami Herald 28-year-old contact lens found in cyst in woman's eyeSFGate Woman unknowingly has contact lens lodged in eye for 28 yearsWTHR The Mercury News -BMJ Case Reports -BMC Ophthalmology - BioMed Central all 123 news articles »

  
  

• Why Are So Many People Flushing Their Contacts Down the Toilet? - The Atlantic

  Sun, 19 Aug 2018 09:00:40 GMT

  The Atlantic

  Why Are So Many People Flushing Their Contacts Down the Toilet? The Atlantic I hadn't given much thought to throwing away my contacts in the toilet. I don't do it often, just when the bathroom trash can is full. It doesn't seem especially dangerous—contact lenses feel so impermanent, so flimsy and transparent that they'll ...

  
  

• CDC: Leaving Contact Lenses In At Night Can Damage Your Vision - CBS New York

  Sat, 18 Aug 2018 00:30:27 GMT

  CBS New York

  CDC: Leaving Contact Lenses In At Night Can Damage Your Vision CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The CDC is warning Americans about the dangers of sleeping with their contacts lenses after a number of people reportedly lost their sight. Eye doctors usually tell their patients to never sleep with their contacts in for ... and more »

  
  

• 'Lost' contact lens removed from woman's eyelid after 28 years - BBC News

  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 11:09:43 GMT

  BBC News

  'Lost' contact lens removed from woman's eyelid after 28 years BBC News A woman has had a contact lens removed from her eyelid 28 years after it was thought to have fallen out. The discovery was made by doctors in Dundee after the patient, now aged 42, complained of swelling over her eye. The lens was found lodged in a ...

  
  

• This Woman Lost Her Contact Lens. Doctors Found It in Her Eyelid 28 Years Later. - Live Science

  Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:52:37 GMT

  Live Science

  This Woman Lost Her Contact Lens. Doctors Found It in Her Eyelid 28 Years Later. Live Science Nearly three decades ago, a 14-year-old in the United Kingdom got hit in the eye during a game of badminton and lost her contact lens. No big deal, right? Well, 28 years later, doctors found the missing contact … embedded in a cyst in her left eyelid. Doctors discover contact lens which was lodged in woman's eyelid for 28 yearsDeccan Chronicle all 4 news articles »

  
  

• How smart contact lenses will help keep an eye on your health - ZDNet

  Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:59:00 GMT

  ZDNet

  How smart contact lenses will help keep an eye on your health ZDNet A team from Purdue University in Indiana have come up with a novel way of combining contact lenses and sensor tech to help monitor the state of an individual's blood glucose -- a key indicator of how well someone with diabetes is keeping the condition ...

  
  

• New Contact Lenses Could Help Patients With Diabetes Keep Vision Longer - CBS Miami

  Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:43:36 GMT

  CBS Miami

  New Contact Lenses Could Help Patients With Diabetes Keep Vision Longer CBS Miami The Caltech graduate student designed these glowing contact lenses to treat diabetic retinopathy – a condition that causes blindness in diabetics. “The small blood vessels that feed the retina begin to die off as a result of the diabetes and so the ... Contact lenses could help diabetic patients keep vision longerKFVS New contact lenses designed to help preserve eyesight for diabeticsWDTV Scientists Developing Glowing Contacts To Treat Diabetic RetinopathyCBS Philly CBS New York all 10 news articles »

  
  

• Woman's painful cyst turns out to be contact lens embedded in eyelid for 28 years - fox2now.com

  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:28:00 GMT

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  Woman's painful cyst turns out to be contact lens embedded in eyelid for 28 years fox2now.com Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it's a cyst and operates. Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid gas-permeable one. But you haven't worn that type of contact ...