New Yorker Eric Barnes bought color contact lenses in a beauty salon. The girl told the doctors that wore them only one day, but even this was not sufficient for injury to the surface of his right eye. After wound infection took place, the consequences of which can lead to problems with vision.
"As soon as the barrier is damaged, it enters the eye infection, - explains ophthalmologist Dr. Roy Chuck Medical Center" Montefiore "in the Bronx. - Of course, we can cure the infection. However, during wound formed scar, which is able to interfere with the normal review" .
Dr. Chuck will need at least six months to see whether it should be a young patient Corneal transplantation To restore vision in the right eye. And all this time, the girl will have to endure terrible pain. This is due to the fact that the surface of the eye is the high density of nerve endings than in any other area of the body. And little will cause a scratch eye pain, a thousand times greater than the tooth. "As far as larger scratches, I can not even imagine how it could make a 14-year-old child" - sums up Dr. Chuck.
In fact, US federal law prohibits the sale contact lenses even for cosmetic needs no special prescription. But beauty shops still sell them, and through the counters and on the Internet, and very cheap. K colored lens not even included instructions on using. "Teenagers and young people get the lenses without a prescription and without supervision, - said Dr. Chuck. - They want to have the eye color favorite stars. But a professional ophthalmologist select your lens to size. A beauty salon, you can with the size to make a mistake that and this will lead to injury. "
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