Chronic dry eyes can significantly affect sufferers’ lives. It can limit their normal every-day activities by causing them to stay inside and rarely leave their house because something as simple as the wind blowing can cause pain and irritation. WRAL.com reports that this chronic eye disease “deprives people of the natural tears that keep their eyes moist and comfortable.” However, there is hope for chronic dry eye sufferers because of a new special kind of contact lens.
Jamie Harwood, a chronic dry eye sufferer, says that eye drops were unsuccessful in treating her condition along with implanting plugs in her tear ducts that diverted more fluid to the eyes. Because both implanting plugs and drops failed in treating her condition, Harwood’s optometrist suggested scleral lenses to help her chronic eye disease.
Harwood’s optometrist, Dr. Jill Bryant, states that scleral lenses are large-diameter, gas-permeable lenses that don’t touch the cornea; they touch the scleral, “or white of the eye.” She went on to say that the lenses are filled with a sterile saline solution, and described it as a “cushion of liquid…that feels wonderful.”
Patients have to use a specific type of suction tool to put the contacts in their eyes, and it might take patients a little bit to get used to. However, after using scleral lenses, Harwood says she became a normal person again with a normal life that was able to go anywhere that she wanted without having to worry about her eyes being dry.
If you are interested in getting fitted for contact lenses, find an optometrist near you.
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