{"id":93458,"date":"2019-07-11T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/dont-shower-with-your-contacts-in-man-blinded"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T21:03:33","slug":"dont-shower-with-your-contacts-in-man-blinded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/dont-shower-with-your-contacts-in-man-blinded","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Shower With Your Contacts In, Man Blinded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dont-shower-with-your-contacts-in-man-blinded2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A UK reporter\u2019s harrowing story of losing sight in his right eye is sure to terrify anyone who\u2019s been lax about contact lens hygiene. He contracted a rare parasitic infection, likely as a result of showering with his contacts in. The costly mistake required over 18 months of intensive treatments, and there\u2019s a chance he may never see out of his right eye again.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Humphreys, a 29-year-old senior reporter at the local Shropshire Star, told his tale in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shropshirestar.com\/news\/health\/2019\/07\/09\/my-fight-for-sight-why-star-reporter-nick-will-never-wear-contact-lenses-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column<\/a> for the outlet this week. According to Humphreys, the trouble began in January 2018. His right eye, which had been noticeably dry for a week, became incredibly sensitive to light and filled with pain. After over-the-counter eye drops failed to do anything, he visited an eye doctor, where an ulcer was discovered. A visit to the hospital afterward eventually revealed the culprit of his symptoms: an infection of the cornea caused by a protozoan called <em>Acanthamoeba<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK reporter\u2019s harrowing story of losing sight in his right eye is sure to terrify anyone who\u2019s been lax about contact lens hygiene. He contracted a rare parasitic infection, likely as a result of showering with his contacts in. The costly mistake required over 18 months of intensive treatments, and there\u2019s a chance he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}