The journal Pediatics, in association with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), looked at emergency room visits for children. Many were associated with contact lens wear. These events included abrasions and ulcers of the cornea and conjunctivitis (I.E., "pink eye"). While these did not require hospitalization, many could have been prevented.
The most common risk factors for contact lens complications were not following the prescribed wearing, care and replacement schedules. It is well known that improper care, using solutions other than those prescribed, not replacing cases or lenses as prescribed, poor hygiene, buying lenses on the Internet without a valid prescriptions, and not seeing the eye doctor regularly, all lead to increased risk of complications.
When eye symptoms occur in children who wear contact lenses, it is important for parents to promptly contact their child's eye doctor to ensure proper diagnosis and management of any potential contact lens-related complication.
Contact lens wear among children has benefits, including improved self-perception and unobstructed peripheral vision. By maintaining regular appointments with the eye doctor and reviewing lens replacement, lens care and hygiene at every visit, both children and adults can be happy, healthy, safe contact lens wearers.
"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." quoted from W. Streightiff
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