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Alcon introduces peroxide solution
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SEATTLE – Alcon announced the U.S. launch of Clear Care Plus hydrogen peroxide cleaning and disinfecting solution, here at Optometry’s Meeting.
The new solution contains HydraGlyde, the moisture matrix found in Opti-Free PureMoist solution, Rick Weisbarth, OD, FAAO, Alcon vice president of professional affairs, said at a company-sponsored press conference.
“We refer to Clear Care Plus as having triple action, where we have a deep cleaning because of the bubbling,” Weisbarth said. “It helps loosen debris and deposits and helps loosen any proteins trying to bind to the lens. HydraGlyde moisture matrix technology allows us to envelop the lens with a moisture matrix. It’s an innovative proprietary compound that gives long-lasting moisture that helps form a barrier around the lens to protect it from protein deposits.”
Weisbarth said the new solution began shipping nationwide mid-June, and sample kits are available to eye care practitioners in July.
“We will be transitioning from the current Clear Care trial kit to the Clear Care Plus,” he said. “We will not stop manufacturing or selling the current Clear Care, but we want to encourage that new patients be started on Clear Care Plus.”
Carla Mack, OD, MBA, FAAO, Alcon’s director of professional and clinical support for U.S. vision care, discussed the need to increase children’s eye exams and how Alcon plans to help.
“We know that children are not getting in for eye exams,” she said. “Eighty percent of what a child learns in school is acquired through vision. An estimated 30 million kids in the U.S. have undetected vision problems. Of those, 25% have vision problems significant enough to affect their learning.
“Comprehensive eye exams can detect these problems, but only 14% of kids have had an eye exam by age 6,” Mack continued. “The AOA recommends comprehensive eye exams at 6 months, 3 years and 6 years.”
To address this problem, Alcon has introduced an interactive e-book, Howard and the Amazing Eye Exam, designed to educate children about eye exams and outline for parents the importance of eye exams for children. The book is available for free download in July.
Weisbarth recommended that practitioners send the book to parents prior to the eye exam for the family to review together. – by Nancy Hemphill, ELS, FAAO
Disclosures: Mack and Weisbarth are employed by Alcon.