Purilens Plus preservative free saline
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2019
- Practical facts about Purilens Plus saline, which is popular for use with scleral lenses.
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Hi, Rebecca! As a new and fumbling 65 y/o scleral patient I want to tell you how valuable your website and information has been to me. It took me literally the entire four month warranty period of my new lenses to get them right and to make the commitment to keep them. Your information was an incredible help. Also got a kick out of the fact that when you talked a few weeks ago (January 2023) about being at the conference in Las Vegas, that my two optometrists, Drs James and Karen Hoffman were presenters about scerals at that conference! When I saw them after the conference, I told them all about your website, and to be sure to direct all their scleral patients to it! Thank you!!!
Hi Cathleen! Aidan here! So glad to hear our site and information is valuable. Have you seen our Scleral Lens User Tutorial yet? products.dryeyeshop.com/en-US/articles/scleral-lens-user-tutorial-8494
@@TheDryEyeShop yes indeed and it was incredibly helpful!
Timestamps:
0:28 Uses of PuriLens
0:59 Sizes
3:23 How long to use
5:13 Why Purilens over other salines?
Thanks for the information
Hello Rebecca, so i really need your help . and i love my doctor but she just confused me lol. so i use hard contacts and have been using boston simplus to store my contacts and the pink addipaks to fill my contacts. Can i use purilens for both filling and storing? if not what do you recommend. And I understand you arent giving me medical advice I am just curious as to what you would do. Thank you so much and thank you for this video.
Hi there!
Regarding Purilens - definitely NO - It's not safe to store any contacts in preservative-free saline at all. The only safe use of Purilens with lenses is rinsing and filling.
What you're calling storage is really overnight disinfection, That can be done with a multi-purpose solution (there are many, Boston Simplus is a good reputable one) or wit Clear Care, which is a slightly more complicated system using hydrogen peroxide that gets "neutralized" overnight in a special case.
I think that the term "saline" can get confusing because some people use that term to refer to soft contact lens solutions in general, including multi-purpose solutions (i.e. solutions that can be used safely to rinse lenses but which are also used for disinfection). However, saline solutions have no ability to clean lenses, and preservative-free salines are not safe to store lenses in.
Hope this helps!
Here's a couple of pages from our tutorial that you might find helpful -
products.dryeyeshop.com/en-US/part-7-cleaning-and-disinfecting-scleral-lenses-33961
products.dryeyeshop.com/en-US/part-3-rinsing-&-filling-33957
Can we use injectable normal saline (NS) with scleral contact lenses.
It would have to be 0.9% sodium chloride solution (I believe NS is also available in 0.45%?). Using it to fill scleral lenses is off-label so clear it with your eye doctor first. Also be aware that it is acidic, so for people with dry or sensitive eyes, adding a drop or so of preservative free artificial tears helps with comfort.
Can we do eye wash with these sterile saline solutions?
It's not a labeled use of the product, but I would have to say it's a common use (and I do it myself) because most eye washes sold in drugstores are preserved with benzalkonium chloride. The big challenge with using unpreserved salines as an eyewash is that they are sold as either unit dose (use it, toss it) or 4oz bottle that needs to be discarded within two weeks. For safety's sake you don't want to keep opened vials/bottles around longer than the label says.
Why do they need to be thrown away? I use mine for months
They need to be thrown away because they are preservative free and therefore will become contaminated after opening. Using them for months is a REALLY bad idea. We only get one pair of eyes. There have been studies done on all the kinds of icky critters and crud that accumulates in bottles of preservative free saline. Trust me, you don't want to be putting that in your eyes.
Can you make your videos shorter