Anyone who has read this blog before will have noticed a common theme about the dangers of cosmetic lenses purchased from non-optical outlets, and it sometimes seems that the warnings may be a little over-egged. Not this year. Not this Halloween. There have been some true horror headlines following an unfortunate case where a woman wore party contact lenses and in the words of the Daily Mirror 'tore her corneas out'.
The reality is that when she tried to remove the lenses after a night out they had fused to her eyes and in the process of getting them out she damaged the top layer of her cornea, resulting in great pain, a hospital visit and time off work. These stories really do catch the attention of the public and the Daily Mail's coverage has been shared 2,700 times.
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