View from the BCLA: Mixed message on contact lens data

Data released earlier this month by Professor Phil Morgan at the University of Manchester, showing that the average age of contact lens fitting in the UK is on the up, carries a mixed message.

On one hand it’s possibly good news that we are finally acceding to the fact that we have multifocal contact lenses that work, so the new fit age is gradually rising. Brilliant.

However, if the average age is going up it means that we are not shaking off the shackles of medieval thinking that we shouldn’t fit contact lenses to kids, after all they can’t look after them properly and they are at a higher risk of serious infections, and we don’t want to be blamed for that do we?