How much time do you spend talking with your patients about contact lens solutions? How much time does your staff spend reviewing contact lens solutions with your patients? This element of contact lens wear is easily overlooked but is one of the most important steps to ensuring success and health for your contact lens patients.
In our practice, we have been able to fit almost exclusively daily disposable lenses for the last seven years; this tremendously lightens the burden of the lens care discussion to—essentially—“Make sure to wash your hands before you put your lenses on or take them off.”
For our other patients who are not able to wear a daily disposable lens but have another wear schedule with a soft lens or a rigid lens, we have chosen to simplify our recommendations. We always recommend one particular hydrogen peroxide cleaner for all of our non-daily disposable lens wearers. This makes it easy for our staff to know what to recommend because there is only one system. We also recommend it because we believe that it is the easiest for patients to use once they understand the system. Most patients who use a multipurpose solution are not rubbing and rinsing for the amount of time required to reach the full disinfectant potential. A hydrogen peroxide cleaner makes it easy for patients to “follow the rules.” We like it because it has excellent disinfecting abilities, and it is preservative free, meaning that fewer patients experience solution sensitivities.
It’s also important to follow up with patients to make sure that they are following your recommendations; but, consider simplifying the contact lens solutions that you present to patients for their greater success and health.
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