“I wasn’t thinking anything would go wrong”.
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As for Carpenter, she continues to recover from the injuries sustained as a result of the lenses, and surgery may be necessary, her mother, Dawn Carpenter, told the Free Press. Several novelty shops, beauty supply stores and online stores sell decorative Halloween lenses without a prescription. But federal officials consider them to be medical devices regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Messages seeking comment were left at Body Jewelry and More, the store where Carpenter bought the lenses, and at the Gibraltar Trade Center offices in Mount Clemens. The phone number on the company’s website did not appear to work. In the past two weeks, officials have seized almost 5,000 pairs of unapproved, illegal and decorative contact lenses, many of which tested positive for bacterial contamination, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
One of hundreds of styles of novelty contact lenses. Our focus is to educate. A few of the novelty lenses have been repackaged and misbranded, she said, and lack the manufacturer information, which is an FDA requirement for medical devices. Dr, David Newman, an optometrist with Englewood Eye Care, was here to tell us about the dangers and what we should do instead. “Follow directions for cleaning, disinfecting, and wearing the lenses, and visit your eye doctor for follow-up eye exams”. I have a long road.
As the family would later find out from Leah’s eye doctor, however, one of the novelty contact lenses Leah wore had damaged part of cornea.
If you do decide to enhance your eyes for Halloween, or for any occasion, use a product like the Acuvue Define and make sure to read up on all the safety precautions.
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Eye doctors said they were a big risk to the cornea, or surface layer of the eye. The teen indicated that her peripheral vision bothered her. The next morning, Carpenter found her daughter’s eye swollen shut.
