No water warning

Hats off to the British Contact Lens Association which has worked with an Acanthamoeba keratitis patient on the design of 'No water' stickers for contact lens boxes http://www.bcla.org.uk/en/news/index.cfm/No%20water%20stickers Any step that can help others in avoiding AK is to be applauded and the simple, yet effective looking stickers should assist until such times as contact lens manufacturers add their own 'No water' warnings. BCLA's immediate past president Catharine Chisholm commented that the move was in response to an apparent lack of awareness of the risks of water coming into contact with lenses and lens cases. The symbols are a modification of those to mark the right and left eye on boxes and hopefully will really tap into the consciusness of contact lens wearers.