Tabloid reports third eye loss story with CLs

Tabloid newspaper The Sun has carried its third story in the past month on a contact lens wearer losing an eye after an infection.

In this case, a grandmother was reported to have developed Acanthamoeba keratitis after swimming while wearing contact lenses in a holiday pool in Kusadasi, Turkey in October. The Sun said that she needed to have her left eye removed and was now struggling to see from her other eye and has had to give up work.

It claimed that UK doctors first blamed conjunctivitis, then three weeks later 'an expert diagnosed the Acanthamoeba bug'.

Medics said a shower in Britain may also be to blame and warned against swimming or showering with lenses in.