CANADA
Reduce the Risk for Infection
The eye health of patients is CIBA VISION’s top priority, and we want contact lens wearers to know that following their eye care professional’s, as well as the manufacturer’s, instructions and properly caring for and cleaning and disinfecting their lenses as directed by their eye care professional, is the best defense against infection. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a list of recommendations on their web site, www.epa.gov, that include:-
Practice good personal hygiene when handling your contact
lenses.
- Clean, rinse, and disinfect lenses with commercially made
sterile solutions
before placing them in the eyes.
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Clean lens cases with commercially made sterile solutions.
- Don’t use tap water, homemade solutions, and other
non-sterile solutions
to disinfect and store contacts.
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Don’t wet lenses with saliva.
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Follow manufacturer instructions in rinsing and storing contact
lenses.
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Don’t swim while wearing your contacts.
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Don’t trade, share, or borrow another person’s
lenses.
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Replace lenses and lens cases as often as possible.
- Only wear contact lenses prescribed by an eye care professional.
On May 25, 2007, in response to information received
from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) initiated an immediate
and voluntary recall of its Complete MoisturePlus® (multi-purpose)
contact lens solutions. According to the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), analysis of
the reported use of contact lens solution brands other
than Complete MoisturePlus did not reveal any statistically
significant association with Acanthamoeba. CIBA VISION
continually gathers and monitors complaint data through
our global tracking system and has not seen an unusual
occurrence of Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in association
with our lens or lens care products.
CIBA VISION has an effective and outstanding lens care
portfolio available with Clear Care® and SOLOCARE
AQUA™ Multi-Purpose Solution, to clean and disinfect
soft contact lenses with a high level of efficacy in
killing common germs and bacteria, when used according
to label instructions as well as instructions from eye
care professionals. Laboratory testing showed that both
Clear Care and SOLOCARE AQUA are effective against the
active form (trophozoite) of Acanthamoeba. Clear Care
is also effective against the dormant (cyst) form of
Acanthamoeba. Additionally, when used with
SOLOCARE AQUA, the MicroBlock® lens case, which is
infused with an antimicrobial agent, is clinically-proven
to reduce lens case contamination. (The MicroBlock lens
case should not be used by persons who are allergic to
silver or other metals.)