Originally Posted by Little Leigh:
“QUOTE=Lisa_B;83711145]Only once or twice. Vision Still intact
Actually you may want to rethink that. You can get a nasty parasite called acanthamoeba kerastasis from even a drop of water getting onto your contact lenses. It's really deeply unpleasant. Look it up and you'll see!
Apparently, all water has tonnes of different types of bacteria and the acanthamoeba just happens to be one of them.
If untreated, the parasite causes sight problems and paralysis or even death as it eats its way through the eye and into the spinal cord. The treatment to deal with it is pretty gruelling too.
As a contact lense wearer of many, many years I would class this as being at least as bad as the spitting incident that many are still upset about. If not worse, given what I have outlined above. If you wear contact lenses you have to take great care of your eyes to ensure you don't end up with problems. It's also certainly not a harmless prank if the intended recipient asks you not to do it and it could cause serious physical harm!”
Correct. You are not supposed to get water on your contact lens as tap water contains bacteria and can cause an infection. Before inserting any lens you appose to wash your hands and dry them.
If the lens moved towards back of the eye she could have stratched her cornea and this would be very painful and she would be in agony.
Sometimes my lens moves and goes to back of eye if my eyes are dry and even this is painful trying to lodge it back to the front.
If the water rushed into her eye could have split the lens through force and again scratched corneas are very painful.
I was admitted to hospital with scratched corneas and the pain was unbearable and you have millions of nerve endings on your eyeballs. Also often opticians can see the after effects of scratched corneas.
Water could have caused an infection and you only know about it later because the infection causes the lens to scratch the cornea and you are in agony. This was what happened to me I had a slight infection and did not know and weating the lens scratched
My corneas and I was 2 days in hospital with bandages on my eyes.