Dry eye syndrome could be treated by contact lens

A novel prototype contact lens may be just what dry eye sufferers are looking for to relieve their symptoms.

The lenses developed by a research team from the Terasaki Institute for

Biomedical Innovation is especially designed to prevent contact lens-induced dry eye by facilitating tear flow in responses to normal eye blinking. By utilizing normal eye blinking, no external devices are needed to induce the tear flow.

Researchers have attempted to use contact lenses to treat dry eye syndrome in the past by using graphene-coated lenses that minimized moisture loss and self-moisturizing lenses that were stimulated with metallic electrodes. Both of these methods were expensive and impractical and had the potential of being unsafe and uncomfortable for the patient.

Researchers hope to test these prototype lenses on animal models and eventually patients. VisiVite offers two dry-eye fighting formulas to help alleviate dry eye symptoms: VisiVite Dry Eye Relief and VisiVite Quench.