CONTACT LENSES AND CENTRAL HEATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING

The modern conditions of our surroundings and the life style we lead are posing greater and greater challenges to our body. The air is getting more and more polluted, and its quality indoors is getting worse despite air-conditioning. Due to the climate we are in, the heating season in Poland lasts around half a year and falls in autumn and winter months. Apart from central heating we often use additional forms of increasing the temperature in our surroundings such as electric heaters or fireplaces. When at work or while driving we make regular use of air-conditioning.

We need to remember, however, that in heated or air-conditioned rooms the air humidity drops by half. Despite the felt thermal comfort our body reacts negatively to the lower air humidity. We complain more frequently of ill-being, and our skin gets dry. Such conditions of the surroundings are also the causes of the tiredness and discomfort of our eyes, which get dry and irritated.

These symptoms intensify with people wearing kontakt lens. This doesn’t mean though, that you instantly need to give up on this form of vision correction. In most cases, as in other areas of our life, it suffices to choose a product that will be adequate to our daily demands, the way we live and the conditions we are most often in. It is important for the lenses which you use to be made of a proper, state-of-the-art material . An optimal material of a soft contact lens is a material which in difficult conditions of the surroundings will show good hydrophilic qualities, high lubricity, good wettability and a low deposit level.

Other parameters of a lens are also of much significance. That’s why the comfort of wearing contact lens depends on regular appointments at a specialist, who on the basis of a conducted interview will fit you with lenses most appropriate for your needs and the life style you lead.

To cater for the needs of contact lens wearers feeling dryness and eye tiredness, especially in unfavourable conditions of the surroundings, the ACUVUE® OASYS™ HYDRACLEAR Plus contact lens has been created. Made of a silicone-hydrogel material, it contains parameters positively affecting the comfort and preventing eye from drying out: oxygen permeability, wettability, lubricity and modulus.1 From the information from specialists and patients, it can be inferred that these features provide a high level of satisfaction and confirm the opinion that this lens brings a relief in case of contact lens-induced dryness symptoms.2

In a conducted research checking the behaviour of the ACUVUE® OASYS™ lens with 158 people declaring that they always or frequently stay in heated or air-conditioned rooms, 85% respondents ,after a week of contact lens wearing, stated that the comfort was “excellent” or “very good”, even if they worked in these unfavourable conditions.

Remember that contact lenses are a medical product, which means that when deciding to use them you need to strictly comply with a specialist’s advice. The commercially available contact lenses differ between each other, therefore they can be fitted and prescribed by a specialist only. 

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