Contact solution may cause blindness!
Thread Starter
Registered User
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 13,826
Likes: 0
From: New Slowmyrna Beach
Contact solution may cause blindness!
The AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution has been recalled, and I have a case of the stuff. AMO will replace it for free if you call 1-888-899-9183. My eyes hurt just thinking about it. Bacteria survives in the bad solution that may lead to an opthamalogically opportunistic parasite (amoeba) known as Acanthomoeba.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May26/0,4...fection,00.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&i...&ncl=1116700030
My sister works for AMO and just got back from their manufacturing facility in China.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May26/0,4...fection,00.html
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&i...&ncl=1116700030
My sister works for AMO and just got back from their manufacturing facility in China.
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 7,279
Likes: 1
From: Bradenton, Florida
OK....Microbiologist hat going on now.
This is serious!!! Acanthomoeba is a parasitic protzoan, not a bacteria. Antibiotics work against bacteria, not against amoebic parasites. The drugs to cure amoebic parisititis are almost worse than the disease itself.
Please heed the warning on this rare type of contamination.
This is serious!!! Acanthomoeba is a parasitic protzoan, not a bacteria. Antibiotics work against bacteria, not against amoebic parasites. The drugs to cure amoebic parisititis are almost worse than the disease itself.
Please heed the warning on this rare type of contamination.
Registered User
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,341
Likes: 0
wow thanks man, that stuff is what the doctor gave us this last time we got contacts cuz no one wanted the renew after it was recalled lol
is there anything on what lot numbers are the bad ones or anything like that? i didnt see it in the stories i looked at.
is there anything on what lot numbers are the bad ones or anything like that? i didnt see it in the stories i looked at.
Registered User
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 125
Likes: 0
From: Jacksonville, Fl
HOLY @#$%!!!! 
i've had a random eye infection for the last week!!! normally i get inflamations from falling asleep in my contacts, but this time, my eye was in serious pain for no reason. I'd change the contact, change the solution, flush my eye, and still... it was irritated, was running constantly, and felt like there was someone poking it with a long stick. and now i read this?? 
i didnt wear contacts in the infected eye for 4 days now, and it seems to be gone. i called the number you listed (which btw, WG got wrong.. its (888) 899-9183) and i'm getting new solution, but what do i do if i go blind, or keep getting this infection? who do i have to find, so i can kill em? 
i've had a random eye infection for the last week!!! normally i get inflamations from falling asleep in my contacts, but this time, my eye was in serious pain for no reason. I'd change the contact, change the solution, flush my eye, and still... it was irritated, was running constantly, and felt like there was someone poking it with a long stick. and now i read this?? i didnt wear contacts in the infected eye for 4 days now, and it seems to be gone. i called the number you listed (which btw, WG got wrong.. its (888) 899-9183) and i'm getting new solution, but what do i do if i go blind, or keep getting this infection? who do i have to find, so i can kill em?
Registered User
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,140
Likes: 0
From: I put the intntl in s2ki
Originally Posted by Lena4ka,May 26 2007, 08:18 PM
HOLY @#$%!!!! i've had a random eye infection for the last week!!! normally i get inflamations from falling asleep in my contacts, but this time, my eye was in serious pain for no reason. I'd change the contact, change the solution, flush my eye, and still... it was irritated, was running constantly, and felt like there was someone poking it with a long stick. and now i read this?? i didnt wear contacts in the infected eye for 4 days now, and it seems to be gone. i called the number you listed (which btw, WG got wrong.. its (888) 899-9183) and i'm getting new solution, but what do i do if i go blind, or keep getting this infection? who do i have to find, so i can kill em?
i've had a random eye infection for the last week!!! normally i get inflamations from falling asleep in my contacts, but this time, my eye was in serious pain for no reason. I'd change the contact, change the solution, flush my eye, and still... it was irritated, was running constantly, and felt like there was someone poking it with a long stick. and now i read this?? i didnt wear contacts in the infected eye for 4 days now, and it seems to be gone. i called the number you listed (which btw, WG got wrong.. its (888) 899-9183) and i'm getting new solution, but what do i do if i go blind, or keep getting this infection? who do i have to find, so i can kill em? 
Trending Topics
Thread Starter
Registered User
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 13,826
Likes: 0
From: New Slowmyrna Beach
Lena, get rid of the contacts that were in your eyes, the case you stored them in, and all the bad Solution.
Do you swim with your contacts in or take a shower with them in? The ameoba does not live in the solution, but it does feed on bacteria that the AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution does not eradicate. There have been less than 50 cases of infection, so chances are you haven't got it. But it is better to be safe than sorry. See your eye doctor.
I'm a bit lysdesic sometimes. Sorry about screwing up the phone number. It has been corrected.
Do you swim with your contacts in or take a shower with them in? The ameoba does not live in the solution, but it does feed on bacteria that the AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution does not eradicate. There have been less than 50 cases of infection, so chances are you haven't got it. But it is better to be safe than sorry. See your eye doctor.
I'm a bit lysdesic sometimes. Sorry about screwing up the phone number. It has been corrected.