Theres a statistical risk of eye infection from wearing contact lenses; doesn wearing contact lenses for scuba diving increase that risk?
A Countless millions of successful dives have been made by contact lens users worldwide. Soft lenses have a great track record for not falling out during dives, unlike older hard lenses. Patients must be advised of the very slight risk for eye infections, and strongly advised to remove and discard or disinfect the contact lenses at the end of the day’s diving activity. Diving with contact lenses is considered safe and reasonable by: The US Navy PADI, the world’s largest scuba training agency ALL the world’s other scuba-training agencies Given the potential hazards of scuba diving, the HydroOptix view provides increased diver safety from: superior situational awareness excellent eye – hand coordination The non-profit DAN (Divers Alert Network), founded by diving M.D.s at Duke University, is renowned worldwide for: hyperbaric medical research promotion of safe diving practices pioneering diver accident insurance by proving the safety of diving DAN attempted to conduct a survey of the eye
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