Case studies: Making up is hard to do

To complement this week’s CPD feature on cosmetics, this article shows a range of patients where, in some capacity, their use of cosmetics has contributed to a problem or, conversely, appropriate advice about a cosmetic has helped with the management of the patient.

Fifty-four-year-old female, DC, attended for a routine eye test, her first for three years. Over this time, she had noticed her reading vision had deteriorated to the point that, reluctantly, she had been using a pair of readymade readers (+1.50DS) for evening reading. She hated wearing these as she felt spectacles ‘ruined my looks’. Otherwise, her vision was good and there were no reported asthenopic symptoms.