Alcon reacts to lens wearer's horror story

Contact lens firm Alcon has stressed that reports of a patient losing an eye had nothing to do with the CIBA Vision contact lenses she had worn.

It was reacting to a report in The Sun newspaper, headlined 'Mum claims contact lens fungus ate away her eye', saying the infection she had developed was not connected to the Focus Dailies one-day CLs she had purchased online.

'Alcon was concerned to hear of this and conducted an investigation based on the evidence provided, but did not find any connection between the contact lens and the consumer's unfortunate experience,' a company statement said.

Alcon also clarified it does not own the Lenstore.co.uk store used to purchase the lenses in question, after the newspaper reported it did.