Comments on: Lenses For Your Eyes – Here’s What You Need to Know http://www.healthontheblog.com/2009/03/lenses-for-your-eyes-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ Health - Wellness - Medicine - Natural Healing. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:52:18 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Richardson, MD http://www.healthontheblog.com/2009/03/lenses-for-your-eyes-heres-what-you-need-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-189 David Richardson, MD Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:48:55 +0000 http://www.healthontheblog.com/?p=161#comment-189 Uh, I'm pretty sure the author did not mean "gasoline permeable" lenses - it would be a very bad idea to get gasoline anywhere near the eye or contact lenses that would be put in the eye (potentially blinding as a matter of fact). Most likely, this error was the result of article rewriting software. The correct term is "gas permeable" lens - as in oxygen permeable. Sincerely, David D. Richardson, M.D.
 Medical Director San Gabriel Valley Eye Associates, Inc. 
 "LA and So Cal's Trusted Source of Eye Care" 207 S. Santa Anita Street, Suite P-25 
 San Gabriel, CA 91776 
626.289.7856 Uh, I’m pretty sure the author did not mean “gasoline permeable” lenses – it would be a very bad idea to get gasoline anywhere near the eye or contact lenses that would be put in the eye (potentially blinding as a matter of fact). Most likely, this error was the result of article rewriting software. The correct term is “gas permeable” lens – as in oxygen permeable.

Sincerely,

David D. Richardson, M.D.

Medical Director

San Gabriel Valley Eye Associates, Inc. 

“LA and So Cal’s Trusted Source of Eye Care”

207 S. Santa Anita Street, Suite P-25 

San Gabriel, CA 91776 
626.289.7856

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