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| maggie 2005-03-19, 6:23 pm |
| Have just been contacted here in Ireland by a post-lasik patient who
is now suffering Sands of the Sahara,horrific pain,third debridment,on
strong pain killers,unable to work,told to take omega 3 tablets.
please advise me to sites that can assist him/HER RECOVERY,NOW ONE
YEAR,
or any specialist worldwide she can visit.I have never in the past 5
years encountered such a case.
All positve and helpful replies to margaret@jacurranda.ie
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-03-19, 6:23 pm |
| Maggie,
Just about any ophthalmologist worth his/her salt knows how to treat
Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis (DLK), also called Sands of Sahara.
Visit http://www.usaeyes.org/faq/subjects/dlk.htm for details on the
malady.
If you want a referral to a doctor, drop me an email, or better yet
contact Rebecca of LaserMyEye.org. She has an associate there in
Ireland and she probably knows exactly who to see without needing to
do any research.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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| CatmanX 2005-03-19, 6:23 pm |
| Maggie, this one is as easy to treat as running a microkeratome across
your eye.
They need a course of topical steroids, such as flares, pred forte or
maxidex. THe steroid will quell the pain and swelling rapidly. A flap
lift and irrigation may be in order as there may be some foreign
particle under the flap.
Hope this helps.
grant
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| Sandy - LASIKdisaster.com - LASIKmemorial.com 2005-03-19, 6:23 pm |
| Glenn, your page implies that DLK is caused only by sterile infiltrates
from the sterilizer and that is not the case. Many other possible
causes have been identified. Perhaps you could correct that page
promptly.
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| Ragnar 2005-03-19, 6:23 pm |
| There is no instrument used in the lasik procedure that isn't
disposable.. Now when a company such as LVI decides to increase their
profit margin by $50 on each eye by reusing those disposable $50
blades.. then there are problems. Amazingly, even though these
problems were known at the Tampa LVI, good ol' Ron Link got on camera
and esplained that the incidence of over 20 eye infections in one day
is not unusual for LASIK. Then Dr. Updegraff got on the same news
report and said that in his entire career he had not had even one eye
infection from LASIK. Sounds to me like someone is a liar and took
some payola from LVI.
On 25 Feb 2005 23:01:39 -0800, "Sandy - LASIKdisaster.com -
LASIKmemorial.com" <sandy@savvysneaks.com> wrote:
>Glenn, your page implies that DLK is caused only by sterile infiltrates
>from the sterilizer and that is not the case. Many other possible
>causes have been identified. Perhaps you could correct that page
>promptly.
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