Cosmetic Contact Lenses Research Paper

In Asia, girls wearing the cosmetic contact lenses are already become trendy, it is very popular these few years. What are cosmetic contact lenses? When you go shopping or buying something online, you may seen some cosmetic contact lenses that they say wearing the cosmetic contact lenses you can get a big eye or switch your color from brown to blue. They also use many models who are charming and wearing the cosmetic contact lenses to attract more girls to buy. But have the consumers ever thought about the safety and is it guaranteed for their eyes? Most of the cosmetic contact lenses, they are non-branded, they only have one sized and everyone can buy it at the shop or on the Internet without any eye prescription. And the problem is if we wear that cosmetic contact lenses that is dangerous and harmful to our eyes without any eye prescription.

We have to go to the registered eye doctor and take some contact lens examination in order to make sure the contact lenses are suitable and fit our eyes before we get a pair of regular contact lenses.( Troy Bedinghaus, O.D., 2009). And the eye doctor will determine if your eyes are health enough to wear contact lens and give you the contact lens which is branded, Whether we should use cosmetic contact lenses or not 1

guaranteed and fitted your eyes. Although the contact lens sounds safe because of the eye doctor, it still has a risk if we don’t use them correctly, clean and cared for property it every day because our eyes are too sensitive. Therefore, what about the cosmetic contact lens it is only one-sized, non-prescription and not guaranteed?

The answer is obviously. There are many chances of getting many diseases and eyes problems if we wearing cosmetic contact lenses that is non-prescription and not fitted our eyes such as “scratches, discomfort, keratitis, an infection of the cornea” more serious problem it can be blindness.( Doreen Bradley Satter, RN, 2011) There is one example which happened in Hong Kong. It’s about a customer who bought a pair of color contact lens in the normal shop, she wore the contact lens that she boughtin the shop and after 5 hours, she felt discomfort and dryness of her eyes. Moreover, she found a clear circular mark was left on her eye balls when she removed the contact lens. (Consumer Council of Hong Kong, 2010)

On the research paper, I will do the questionnaire to ask the how much do they know about the cosmetic contact lens and how bad of the cosmetic contact lens can harmful. After the questionnaire we can know what is the average do the people know about the harmful of the cosmetic contact lens. And we can know the reason why even the people know that is bad for Whether we should use cosmetic contact lenses or not the eyes and they still wearing cosmetic contact lens.

References

Troy Bedinghaus, O.D.(2009, July 21) Before You Get Contacts. Retrieved from http://vision.about.com/od/contactlenses/bb/Contact_Lenses.htm

Doreen Bradley Satter, RN(2011, March 3) The many dangers of Cosmetic Contact Lenses. Retrieved from http://voices.yahoo.com/the-many-dangers-cosmetic-contact-lenses-7974818.html?cat=5

Consumer Council of Hong Kong. (2010). Unregulated Sales of Cosmetic Lens Spark Safety Concerns. Choice#(410). Retrieved from http://www.consumer.org.hk/website/ws_en/news/press_releases/p41004.html