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Can Swimming with Contacts Cause Blindness?

By Lang Family Eye Care / October 1, 2013

We came across an article about a woman who had contracted a parasite in her eye while wearing her contacts in a swimming pool and it caused blindness in that eye. Acanthamoeba keratitis is what caused her blindness and though, as the article says, she was careful to care for her contact lenses and her…

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