Comment: The end of Fluorets

Ladders are no longer to be manufactured. Window cleaners will now have to assemble an expensive access tower to clean the first floor glass or hire a cherry picker. Does that sounds crazy to you? Not a scenario you can imagine? Why would anyone withdraw a simple yet practical tool, commensurate with a job, leaving only an over the top, and less suitable, alternative?

If you fit contact lenses then that is exactly what has happened. Bausch+Lomb has ceased production of fluorescein sodium ophthalmic strips, that's Fluorets to you and me, leaving the option of Minims fluorescein. To those who conduct anterior assessments this will create more expense, be less effective and take more time. They will struggle to instil just the amount needed, if the concentration is too high it won't fluoresce. Worst of all it may bring practitioner and patient into conflict.