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"The doctor said it was as if someone took sandpaper and sanded my cornea," she says. "He said he wasn't universal to sugar-coat it, that I could lose my eyesight or could escape my eye."
She was treated for seven weeks and had dropping eyelid for five months, and to this day has decreased envisaging.
In addition to the trauma, decorative lens wearers also might get an infection from unsterile lenses that results in an blight on the cornea. Ill-fitting contact lenses might withdraw the cornea of nutrients and oxygen, which would lead to "binding lens syndrome," which can be very uncomfortable, according to the Citizen Eye Institute .
Think it's no big deal if you just in them once and throw them away? Think again
"Bacterial infections can be damned rapid, result in corneal ulcers, and induce blindness--sometimes within as little as 24 hours if not diagnosed and treated unhesitatingly," FDA optometrist Dr. Bernard Lepri, said in a written proclamation . "The problem isn't with the decorative contacts themselves," he added. "It's the way people use them improperly - without a valid recipe, without the involvement of a qualified eye care professional, or without germane follow-up care."
Source: CBS News