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idocsteve
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^^ Great post, and it's all good.
Instructors and Contact Lenses
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Another vote for diving with contacts. 15yrs. of diving, 10yrs as an instructor and never an issue with contacts. I did lose a gas perm lens at a dive site before a dive and soon after switched to soft lenses. It is easy to squint without a mask, and with bifocal lenses even gauge readers may be unnecessary.
SDiverJim
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Agreed great post re: contacts. Just for education with a fear factor....one of the worst type of infections is an amoeboid infection for contact lenses wearers. Heavily associated with swimming in contacts in pools or lakes. Very painful! The goal would be to preserve as much of your vision as we can. Treatment can last for a year with a corneal specialist. It's a pretty nasty bug. Not overly common but it occurs. Alot of the contact cleaning agents may not remove it from the contact. The peroxide systems are your best chance. I would only recommend daily disposables but I recommend my patients DON'T wear contacts in the water.
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idocsteve
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A bit conservative but an understandable prescribing philosophy. However this really doesn't apply to scuba divers who for the most part will not be wearing their contact lenses in the water, they will be wearing them in the air within their mask.
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