Bausch & Lomb recently stopped U.S. sales of the contact lens cleaner ReNu with MoistureLoc.
The cleanser has been linked to an outbreak of Fusarium keratitis, a severe fungal eye infection. The infections can cause pain and even blindness.
However, the company may have been aware as early as last fall of infections among contact lens users in Hong Kong.
Warned in November
Health officials in Hong Kong warned Bausch & Lomb of lens-related infections in November. Bausch & Lomb filed reports of the 25 cases with the U.S. FDA in December, but claimed that no cause was known and no conclusions could be drawn.
Infections on the Increase
Recently the nasty fungal infection, Fusarium keratitis, connected with Bausch and Lomb's popular MoistureLoc for cleaning contact lenses was in the news. Apparently, we shouldn't have been surprised about this new American outbreak at all.
Bausch and Lomb stopped shipments to eastern Asia three months ago, after a significant outbreak of eye infections was reported in Singapore. This reignited a similar investigation launched nearly a year ago in Hong Kong. Of the patients interviewed in the Hong Kong probe, 40 percent of them used MoistureLoc.
So far, almost 200 patients have a confirmed or suspected case of keratitis and eight required cornea transplants. Without treatment, a patient could become blind or, at the very least, scar the cornea.
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