European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Contact wearers lose sigh of need to clean them by Gayle Young United press internationale very1 pair of new Contact lenses comes Wilh a list o scrupulous instructions Loi their Cate and maintenance a Lisl Loo Many ions wearers disregard of skip Eye doctors say. Patient co Phanco Wilh instructions is Pio Bubly one of the biggest issues Wilh con acl lenses Loday said or Roy Wesley president at Iho National Eye research foundation in Northbrook. Ill the truth is noncompliance is very  doctors say hey cannot to sure now Many con acl Lens wearers fail 1o properly clean  lenses but say almost All Oye infections in Lens wearers can to traced to poor cleaning habits. A week does t go by that i Don t see someone who has developed an infection because they Don t want to take the Lime to clean their tenses properly said or. Louis Wilson professor o ophthalmology at Emory University in Atlanta. They want to keep it simple so they Lake shortcuts several Eye doctors attending a seminar on Iho Loolah anniversary of Coolack lenses said they believe Many people initially clean their lenses diligently then Slack of Over time. Not All gel a Fec Lions but the doctors said the potential for problems is there. It s like playing Roulette said or. Michael Larkin professor of ocular Distaso a Southern California College of optometry in Fullerton however doctors also said there Are Lens wearers who have few problems despite poor cleaning Nabrish. Although they do not condone skipping rigorous cleaning instructions Tho doctor3 said some people apparently can gel by Wilh less diligent Lens care than others some 24 million americans or roughly 10 percent of to population Wear con acl lenses. 01 those. 80 percent have the soil hydrophilic i Naes that Are comfortable on the eyes but More dil Zarfl to clean than iradia ional tenses made of hard plastics most soft lenses Aro comprised of 50 per cell water making them feel smooth to Iho Back of the eyed the almost non existent friction moans the lenses can to worn for weeks even months or a time Inco Forl. But the High water Content makes such tenses perfect Breeding grounds Lor bail aria and viruses within the Eye doctors said also protein found in teardrops Buis up on soil lenses mailing hem Cloudy and useless alter a period of Lime ranging from several months to several years depending on the individual doctors sad. Most people who Wear soft Contact lenses Musl do three things on a daily or weekly basis clean the grime pollution and make up off their lenses disinfect them to kill germs and finally remove the protein build up thai accumulates irom ears. Originally people disinfected sheif lenses by placing them in a sterile Saline solution Hen boiling them overnight in a Healing unit that eventually caused distortion and discoloration. In the past five years most wearers have switched Over to cold chemical solutions that Heep lenses in Good shape bul Are More expensive the solutions can also cause Eye irritation if not nosed Oft completely ii is estimated the average Lens wearer spends $150 a year on solutions to clean disinfect and remove protein irom lenses. Doctors say some patients disinfect their a 1013 two Wrania in . Have introduced Dpi Pometo Contact tented to a thrown away utter having been worn a week without bang cleaned or . Lenses less Ellen than they should to save Money. Another Cost Cutter to measure is Leon Eccl Saline solutions at Home irom sterile water and sail tablets bul the practice has been discouraged since a centers for disease control study indicated Home made solutions arc easily contaminated. The doctors said protein must a removed in cd another Slep hat involves swishing lenses through a commercially prepared enzyme solution most doctors recommend soft lenses be cleaned and disinfected daily and the enzyme solutions used once a week. People have slopped wearing Contact lenses because they become weary of it Wilson said. However cleaning it rises May eventually become obsolete. Two companies recently introduced disposable Contact lenses thai Are worn for one week then thrown away without Ever being cleaned or disinfected. The doctors said disposable contacts May also be misused by people seeding to save Lime and Money. People Are going to extend irom one week to two weeks to two months and the problems will still be Here Wilson said. Long married couples do look alike study finds by Daniel Goleman new York times science is lending support to the olt belief a married couples eventually begin to look alike. Afler 25 years of marriage couples who bore no particular resemblance when first married came to resemble one another although the resemblance might be Subtle according to a study. The More marital happiness a couple reported Iho greater their increase in facial resemblance. The increase in facial similarity probably results from decades of shared emotions according to Robert Zajonc a psychologist at the University of Michigan who did the research. In the study people were presented a random array of photographs of faces Wilh the backgrounds blacked out and were instructed to Malch the men with the women who most closely resembled them. Two dozen of the photographs were of couples when first married another iwo dozen were of tie same copies 25 years Laier. Most taken around the Lime of their Silver wedding anniversary. The Young couples showed Only a Chance similarity the study found while Irto judges found a definite resemblance Between the couples who had been married a Quarter Century. While the resemblances were not dramatic some seemed to involve Subtle shifts in facial wrinkles and other facial contours Tor instance they were marked enough that a judges were Able to match husbands and wives far More often when the couples Wero older than when they were younger the study done by atone Wilh three graduate students Pamela Adelmann Sheila Murphy and Paula Niedenthal will be published later this year in the journal motivation Ami emotion Zajonc in explaining the findings held that factors such As similar diets and thus deposits of fatty tissues May contribute to the resemblance but Are not crucial. When the photographs were evaluated Lor facial fat the older couples were found to have less similarity than the younger ones. 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