In the second in a series of articles summarising the key findings of the BCLA CLEAR publications, a major review of the published evidence relating to all aspects of contact lens practice, Pauline Bradford offered an overview of the BCLA CLEAR section relating to contact lens complications (Optician 06.05.2022).
This article was then the source material for an interactive CPD exercise focusing on two different cases. In each case, the patient was a contact lens wearer presenting with some degree of discomfort.
A 34 year old male patient presents for an unscheduled aftercare complaining of a sore right eye for the last few days. He has been unable to wear his lens but the eye still feels like it is getting worse without lens wear too. He is photophobic and has some noticeable oedema of the right eyelid. The left eye is asymptomatic.
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