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CONTACT WEARERS BEWARE OF EYEBALL-EATING AMOEBA
An acanthamoeba may not be a term you’re likely to hear at the optometrist while being outfitted for a new prescription for contacts, but it’s a good reason to heed their warnings about proper contact lens care.
The acanthamoeba is a microorganism found to essentially crawl through the eye’s cornea causing not only pain but also potentially permanent blindness. The United Kindgom’s Press Association recently reported though incidence if the infection is rare — only about 75 people of the 3.7 million contact lens wears in the U.K. are treated each year — it’s still worth being aware of how to best avoid contracting it.
The UKPA states that the parasite, which burrows into the eye, can be picked up from a dirty case or from rinsing lenses in tap, river, pond or lake water. It also notes the condition, Acanthamoeba keratitis, is often misdiagnosed. Once contracted, treatment includes a hospital stay with “round-the-clock administration of disinfecting eye drops,” UKPA states. If the infection is bad enough, the cornea could need to be replaced or blindness could also result.
Xavier
September 8th, 2012
What no AGW? Rewrite and re-release within 24 hours.
Corona
September 8th, 2012
Ima eatin yer eyeballs! Nothin you can do about it. Mmm mmm mmm!
Toaster
September 8th, 2012
Not to be confused with Naegleria fowleri The Brain Eating Amoeba which is frequently found at Democrat conventions.
Bob M.
September 8th, 2012
Bifocals for ME, please!
This is why the ONLY thing I stick in my eye, is my dirty, grubby, fingers!
Unruly Refugee
September 9th, 2012
“There are statutes that required physicians to put a drop of 1% silver nitrate solution in each eye of every newborn baby.”
I clipped the above from the internet because I always forget if it is nitrate or nitrite.
My point is that you can do the same thing with colloidal silver. A doctor won’t tell you that because they would lose money if everybody started using it.
Put a few drops in your eyes. Doesn’t burn. Maybe soak your contacts in it? I don’t know, I wear glasses. But when I have a problem with my eyes I use the silver. It has a lot of other uses and bacteria don’t build up a resistance to it. Bacteria cannot live in the presence of silver. It kills fungus, mold, viruses too.
They use it in burn hospitals because it doesn’t cause any extra pain and it works.
The old timers used to put a silver dollar in their milk jugs to keep it from going bad.
They can’t patent a natural substance, so the pharmaceutical companies keep pushing antibiotics.
sux to be jo
September 9th, 2012
Unruly Refugee
well, if you say so, i mean i DID it on the innerwebs
Holder2013
September 9th, 2012
Your contacts can make you blind, sex can kill you, food makes you fat, medicine can cause a host of problems, and now in the last four years we learn that your president can completely destroy your country.
Dukenik
September 9th, 2012
Yep. I wear contacts. I got muck in my eye while milking cows. Eyes turned red and nasty. I sprayed each eye with colloidal silver and wore glasses for a few days. My eyes cleared up just fine.
Didn’t know enough to be worried though.
norman einstein
September 9th, 2012
If you are stupid enough to clean your contacts in pond water, you are probably too stupid to know what you’re looking at, anyway.
Captain Bloodblister
September 9th, 2012
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=5843725
I thought I’d seen everything, but a colloidal silver junkie? wtf?