Are You a Candidate for Smooth Bandage Lenses?
Smooth bandage lenses are often reserved for extreme or sophisticated circumstances of harm to the cornea.
- Corneal abrasions
- Corneal erosions
- Corneal ailments, comparable to bullous keratopathy
- Postsurgical corneal therapeutic
- Situations like Stevens-Johnson syndrome (a uncommon, extreme, adversarial drug response that impacts the pores and skin and mucous membranes)
- Extreme dry eye
They’re extra generally used for corneal abrasions; postoperatively, together with after corneal transplant; and when the floor of the attention must be protected, Galor says.
They aren’t generally used for dry eye, although, in response to Nicole Bajic, MD, an ophthalmologist on the Cole Eye Institute at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. “It’s not one thing I’d suggest routinely. It’s in very choose circumstances during which the drops will not be offering satisfactory reduction,” Dr. Bajic says.
One other occasion is that if the epithelium (the floor of the cornea) has turn into broken, injured, or damaged down from scratches, erosions, or poor therapeutic, and is inflicting extreme dry eye signs like stinging, sharp ache, or the sensation that one thing is caught within the eye, Galor says.
Kanevsky makes use of bandage contact lenses extra steadily for situations like recurrent erosions and abrasions, particularly in youngsters and older adults as a result of they will cut back ache whereas permitting the cornea to heal.
“Generally I’ll use them when the dry eye has precipitated an erosion or abrasion, however this can be a short-term answer,” she says.
