What is Fusarium Fungus?
Fusarium fungus is regularly found in soil and in plant material in tropical and subtropical areas. Without treatment the infection can scar the cornea causing blindness. To complicate matters further, the fungus is tricky to detect due to the complexity of lab cultures that not all doctors are prepared to take or know how to read. Furthermore, it could take weeks for the cultures to come back because the fungus can be slow-growing which can slow even more the process. To further complicate matters, the medicine used for the treatment for fungal infections may not be widely stocked by pharmacies and often must be ordered; during this time consuming process, the fungus is damaging the eye. Critics of contact lens solution makers have contended that current testing methods are not enough to insure the products safety. Such argument gained weight when researchers at the Center of Mycology found Renu with Moisture Loc was unable to resist contamination because of the strain of Fusarium res
