Is my Keratoconus in decline?
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rosemary johnson
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- Joined: Tue 19 Oct 2004 8:42 pm
- Keratoconus: Yes, I have KC
- Vision: Contact lenses
- Location: East London, UK
Emma,
Hi and welcome.
A word of clarification: "protein" is the type of chemcials that form the "building blocks" of the human body. Protein is also on eof the main types of nutrients in food - protein is found in meat, cheese, eggs, nuts, beans, etc.
What some people use on their lenses is protein *remover*. This is because some people have a lot of sticky protein stuff intheir tears that tends to accumulate on the lenses and need to be cleared off every so often.
SOme people produce more or less of this, and have a greater or lesser need of the protein removers.
You can tell if your lenses are really not being kept clean enough because they don't wet very well - if you find you're trying to put in a lens and the wetting solution keeps "pulling away" and leaving dry patches, you probably need to clean them some more, rather than just put on more wetting solution.
If you never get this problem, it may be you have very unsticky tears and what you're doing is fine.
Gas permeable material lenses do tend to need cleaning more often than the older type- in my experience.
Rosemary
Hi and welcome.
A word of clarification: "protein" is the type of chemcials that form the "building blocks" of the human body. Protein is also on eof the main types of nutrients in food - protein is found in meat, cheese, eggs, nuts, beans, etc.
What some people use on their lenses is protein *remover*. This is because some people have a lot of sticky protein stuff intheir tears that tends to accumulate on the lenses and need to be cleared off every so often.
SOme people produce more or less of this, and have a greater or lesser need of the protein removers.
You can tell if your lenses are really not being kept clean enough because they don't wet very well - if you find you're trying to put in a lens and the wetting solution keeps "pulling away" and leaving dry patches, you probably need to clean them some more, rather than just put on more wetting solution.
If you never get this problem, it may be you have very unsticky tears and what you're doing is fine.
Gas permeable material lenses do tend to need cleaning more often than the older type- in my experience.
Rosemary
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GarethB
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- Keratoconus: Yes, I have KC
- Vision: Graft(s) and contact lenses
- Location: Warwickshire
It is what we often refer to here as 'Goo'.
From what I can find out the most common cause of this is due to the tears being deficient in a surfactant that helps the lipid component of tears flow in the watery saline tears.
Therefore tears contain;
Saline
Surfactant
Lipids
Systane I use (and there are others) is relativly viscous and for me helps the tears flow and stick to the eye properly and so improve corneal hydration.
Downside is you can only use Systane without lenses in so if you need a top up in the day, you need to briefly remove your lenses. Once the drops are in your eyes, you can put your lenses straight in again.
Since using Systane regularly snice December I am now at the point I rarely get the goo build up in my eye and mye eyes and lenses are very comfortable.
From what I can find out the most common cause of this is due to the tears being deficient in a surfactant that helps the lipid component of tears flow in the watery saline tears.
Therefore tears contain;
Saline
Surfactant
Lipids
Systane I use (and there are others) is relativly viscous and for me helps the tears flow and stick to the eye properly and so improve corneal hydration.
Downside is you can only use Systane without lenses in so if you need a top up in the day, you need to briefly remove your lenses. Once the drops are in your eyes, you can put your lenses straight in again.
Since using Systane regularly snice December I am now at the point I rarely get the goo build up in my eye and mye eyes and lenses are very comfortable.
Gareth
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