Symptomatology of HEMA Contact Lens Wear

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Abstract
Identification of the determinants of patient symptoms is a requisite for successful patient management in contact lens practice. Symptoms reported by 104 patients wearing hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) contact lenses, who presented consecutively to a large contact lens clinic, were analyzed. Dryness was reported more frequently than the symptoms scratchy and watery (pscratchiness (pdryness (p<0.05) than females who were not using oral contraceptives. The symptom dryness was reported more frequently by patients whose lenses were older than 6 months (p<0.05), and those wearing toric lenses (p<0.01). These findings will assist practitioners to anticipate those patients who are likely to develop contact lens-related symptoms and lay the foundations for a model of symptomatology during contact lens wear.

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