A contact lens solution manufacturer voluntarily withdrew one of its products yesterday after federal health officials said an investigation had linked it to a rare but potentially blinding eye infection.
Customers were advised to immediately stop using the solution, AMO Complete Moisture Plus Multi-Purpose Solution. The solution, used to clean and store soft contact lenses, is made by Advanced Medical Optics of Santa Ana, Calif.
Soft contact lens wearers who have the AMO solution were advised to discard all partially used or unopened bottles and switch to alternative products. They should also throw out their current contact lenses and the lens storage case because they may harbor an infection-causing amoeba, officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said.
The agency also advised people who have used the product to call an eye doctor if they have experienced eye pain or redness, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, the feeling of something in the eye or excessive tearing. The symptoms, which resemble those of other eye problems, can last weeks to months and vary among patients.
Advanced Medical Optics said it withdrew the product as a precaution after the epidemiologists at the disease control centers said they had identified 138 laboratory confirmed cases of the infection, Acanthamoeba keratitis, that have occurred throughout the country since January 2005. Keratitis is inflammation of the cornea.
The authorities said that the link was “preliminary” and that it had not determined precisely how the patients became infected. But investigators found that the risk of developing the infection was at least seven times greater for those people who used the AMO product than for those who did not.
The company said, “There is no evidence to suggest that the voluntary recall is related to a product contamination issue and this does not impact any of AMO’s other contact lens care products.”
Acanthamoeba infection usually develops slowly and can be difficult to diagnose and treat. Doctors often attribute Acanthamoeba infections at first to a virus, herpes simplex, that is treatable. But the drugs for herpes do not help Acanthamoeba patients. Doctors advise treating the infection as early as possible.
The amoeba is ubiquitous and often found in tap and recreational water, soil, sewage, cooling towers and heating and ventilation systems. It is not spread person-to-person.
So far, epidemiologists have interviewed 46 of the 138 patients with confirmed cases of the illness. Of the 46, 39 (85 percent) wore soft contact lenses, 3 (7 percent) wore rigid lenses and 4 (9 percent) reported no contact lens use.
Acanthamoeba keratitis usually affects healthy people who wear contact lenses. About 85 percent of the cases reported in this country have occurred in contact lens users, including wearers who say they follow recommended contact lens-care practices, health officials said.
Ok everyone who uses this brand of saline please throw it away or drink it!
Monday, May 21, 2007
Sheena, Winsor and I have this wonderful idea.
Once we make enough money to heck care this world, we're gonna go live in the Himalayas!
Damn shiok I tell you.
No need to worry about shit like politics and work.
Getting sick of civilisation I tell you.
On the mountains right we're gonna live like lone wolves.
No pack politics, no alpha to worry about, just today.
Maybe it's because I'm an analog creature stuck in a digital world.
Hahaha mental flu.
Once we make enough money to heck care this world, we're gonna go live in the Himalayas!
Damn shiok I tell you.
No need to worry about shit like politics and work.
Getting sick of civilisation I tell you.
On the mountains right we're gonna live like lone wolves.
No pack politics, no alpha to worry about, just today.
Maybe it's because I'm an analog creature stuck in a digital world.
Hahaha mental flu.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Yay blogger is working normally for me! FINALLY!
Ok went to town area just now! AND I WAS DARN INSULTED K!
There's this 60ish aunty who came to talk to me and said
"Xiao di, ni shi bu shi qu jiao tang?"
"Huh? Bu shi leh?"
"Ni yang zhi hen xiang ji du jiao tu! Ta men quan bu dou chuan de xiang ni zhe yang!"
So for those who can't read the han yu pin yin, the aunty thought I was a Christian cos' I looked like one! EH! I LOOK EMO K! I AM WEARING THIS ULTRA EMO SPECS, AND CARRYING A GUITAR AROUND! I STARE AT THE FLOOR FOR DUNNO WHAT REASONS, AND I CONTEMPLATE THE MEANING OF LIFE AND DEATH EVERYDAY! I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN!
No offence to christian, but aunty, my allegiance is not to The Abrahamic God ok! I am an ATHEIST!
And after that experience, I was crossing the road, then I saw this car coming towards us, so I naturally told gang to kuai dian zhou right? Then this 2 ah bengs at my back thought I said Fuck you to them. No, I'm serious! So they called me back and jiomed me! Luckily I called Si Yuan along! SI YUAN GANGSTER OK!
So the conversation went something like this:
"Eh boy did you just said fuck you to us?"
"Eh no? I said kuai dian zhou to my friends?"
"Oh."
And I did my trademark apologetic salute.
I just attract the weirdest people in the world.
Eccentric Magnetism I guess.
Ok went to town area just now! AND I WAS DARN INSULTED K!
There's this 60ish aunty who came to talk to me and said
"Xiao di, ni shi bu shi qu jiao tang?"
"Huh? Bu shi leh?"
"Ni yang zhi hen xiang ji du jiao tu! Ta men quan bu dou chuan de xiang ni zhe yang!"
So for those who can't read the han yu pin yin, the aunty thought I was a Christian cos' I looked like one! EH! I LOOK EMO K! I AM WEARING THIS ULTRA EMO SPECS, AND CARRYING A GUITAR AROUND! I STARE AT THE FLOOR FOR DUNNO WHAT REASONS, AND I CONTEMPLATE THE MEANING OF LIFE AND DEATH EVERYDAY! I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN!
No offence to christian, but aunty, my allegiance is not to The Abrahamic God ok! I am an ATHEIST!
And after that experience, I was crossing the road, then I saw this car coming towards us, so I naturally told gang to kuai dian zhou right? Then this 2 ah bengs at my back thought I said Fuck you to them. No, I'm serious! So they called me back and jiomed me! Luckily I called Si Yuan along! SI YUAN GANGSTER OK!
So the conversation went something like this:
"Eh boy did you just said fuck you to us?"
"Eh no? I said kuai dian zhou to my friends?"
"Oh."
And I did my trademark apologetic salute.
I just attract the weirdest people in the world.
Eccentric Magnetism I guess.
Monday, May 14, 2007
I want to quit smoking!
Like I really do!
But 3 days without any nicotine is HELL!
You lie on the bed, and all you think of is smokes!
You fall asleep, you dream of you smoking!
Your relative smokes, and you stand beside him just to get a breathe of ciggy smokes!
You just feel like shit huh!
But I want to quit!
AHHHHHHHHH!
What can change the nature of a man?
Today it's torment!
It burnsssssssssssss
Like I really do!
But 3 days without any nicotine is HELL!
You lie on the bed, and all you think of is smokes!
You fall asleep, you dream of you smoking!
Your relative smokes, and you stand beside him just to get a breathe of ciggy smokes!
You just feel like shit huh!
But I want to quit!
AHHHHHHHHH!
What can change the nature of a man?
Today it's torment!
It burnsssssssssssss
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Hahahaha I love my kidd brother!
I was arguing with him about bullshit like lawyers needing A math and the etymology of the word nigger! Hahahah was telling him that you need to know at least something in all the fields in order to make a good lawyer! And being the brother I know he of course disagreed and a debate of epic proportions ensued.
EH AND NIGGAS CAN BE WHITE OK! JUST BECOS THEY ARE BLACK DOESN'T MAKE THEM A NIGGA! THEY CAN BE AHBUNEHNEH ALSO OK! LOOK AT MICHAEL JACKSON! HE'S A NIGGA EVEN THO HE'S WHITE YOU!
Ok. Sedition Act, I'm sorry.
I was arguing with him about bullshit like lawyers needing A math and the etymology of the word nigger! Hahahah was telling him that you need to know at least something in all the fields in order to make a good lawyer! And being the brother I know he of course disagreed and a debate of epic proportions ensued.
EH AND NIGGAS CAN BE WHITE OK! JUST BECOS THEY ARE BLACK DOESN'T MAKE THEM A NIGGA! THEY CAN BE AHBUNEHNEH ALSO OK! LOOK AT MICHAEL JACKSON! HE'S A NIGGA EVEN THO HE'S WHITE YOU!
Ok. Sedition Act, I'm sorry.
Was staring up at the sky just now when I was having my late night Vitamin C. The stars are pretty bright tonight!
Amazing that each star has like planets orbiting them, and each planet holds so much promise. They whisper to me of civilisations and oceans and mountains and plains and soooo much more!
I want to live forever so I can visit each and everyone of them!
So much to learn and experience, so little time.
Really humbles you to know that you are just one tinny whinny speck in the universal scheme of things.
I want to be someone big next time, so when other sentient beings visit Earth, hey, at least they will know my name!
"Greetings Alsagoth, Progenitor of Aldor and Galwin, my name is KJ, of the Kwek aingofarth"
Ok, late night ramblings! Good night all!
Amazing that each star has like planets orbiting them, and each planet holds so much promise. They whisper to me of civilisations and oceans and mountains and plains and soooo much more!
I want to live forever so I can visit each and everyone of them!
So much to learn and experience, so little time.
Really humbles you to know that you are just one tinny whinny speck in the universal scheme of things.
I want to be someone big next time, so when other sentient beings visit Earth, hey, at least they will know my name!
"Greetings Alsagoth, Progenitor of Aldor and Galwin, my name is KJ, of the Kwek aingofarth"
Ok, late night ramblings! Good night all!
Was staring up at the sky just now when I was having my late night Vitamin C. The stars are pretty bright tonight!
Amazing that each star has like planets orbiting them, and each planet holds so much promise. They whisper to me of civilisations and oceans and mountains and plains and soooo much more!
I want to live forever so I can visit each and everyone of them!
So much to learn and experience, so little time.
Really humbles you to know that you are just one tinny whinny speck in the universal scheme of things.
I want to be someone big next time, so when other sentient beings visit Earth, hey, at least they will know my name!
"Greetings Alsagoth, Progenitor of Aldor and Galwin, my name is KJ, of the Kwek aingofarth"
Ok, late night ramblings! Good night all!
Amazing that each star has like planets orbiting them, and each planet holds so much promise. They whisper to me of civilisations and oceans and mountains and plains and soooo much more!
I want to live forever so I can visit each and everyone of them!
So much to learn and experience, so little time.
Really humbles you to know that you are just one tinny whinny speck in the universal scheme of things.
I want to be someone big next time, so when other sentient beings visit Earth, hey, at least they will know my name!
"Greetings Alsagoth, Progenitor of Aldor and Galwin, my name is KJ, of the Kwek aingofarth"
Ok, late night ramblings! Good night all!
Friday, May 04, 2007
I miss this bunch of people.
And Mr. Tang Pin Chen! I shall see you on Sunday! Don't forget ok!
And where is Ker Siang nowadays!
Ok, I shall dedicate a song to you all!
A hundred days have made me older
Since the last time that I saw your pretty face
A thousand lies have made me colder
And I don't think I can look at this the same
But all the miles that separate
Disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight it's only you and me
The miles just keep rollin'
As the people leave their way to say hello
I've heard this life is overrated
But I hope that it gets better as we go
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl its only you and me
Everything I know, and anywhere I go
It gets hard but it wont take away my love
And when the last one falls
When it's all said and done
It gets hard but it wont take away my love
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl its only you and me
And Mr. Tang Pin Chen! I shall see you on Sunday! Don't forget ok!
And where is Ker Siang nowadays!
Ok, I shall dedicate a song to you all!
A hundred days have made me older
Since the last time that I saw your pretty face
A thousand lies have made me colder
And I don't think I can look at this the same
But all the miles that separate
Disappear now when I'm dreaming of your face
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight it's only you and me
The miles just keep rollin'
As the people leave their way to say hello
I've heard this life is overrated
But I hope that it gets better as we go
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl its only you and me
Everything I know, and anywhere I go
It gets hard but it wont take away my love
And when the last one falls
When it's all said and done
It gets hard but it wont take away my love
I'm here without you baby
But you're still on my lonely mind
I think about you baby
And I dream about you all the time
I'm here without you baby
But you're still with me in my dreams
And tonight girl its only you and me
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