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Doctors fitting PROSE or scleral lenses make patient-specific recommendations for what solutions they should use to fill the lenses, and these recommendations are sometimes adjusted based on practical issues such as comfort, fogging, etc.  Sometimes doctors don't provide specific recommendations and patients make their choices (safe and preservative free choices, we hope!) based on what they can glean from others' experiences in social media, including our Facebook scleral lens group or our DryEyeZone scleral lens forum. (We hope everyone circles back to their doctor and lets them know what they're using.) Here are some of the many scenarios I've come across in...

Summer is coming and people tend to have lots more travel scheduled then. It's important to know what you can, and cannot take in your carry-ons, and how to plan ahead when you know you don't want to get stuck without any of your scleral lens supplies. For domestic US travel, the TSA has its 3-1-1 liquids rule exemption. But international travel may be much more problematic, depending where you're heading!  The following story was shared by Nancy, a longtime PROSE user, of her experience traveling through London with preservative free saline: Nancy's story: I am a long-time (going on 4 years)...

Our new, updated Dry Eye Zone website is live at last! Still lots of content we want to add, but it's already chock full of information, articles, blog posts and reference materials. Dry Eye Glossary - add to your favorites to look up unfamiliar terms and treatments.  Dry Eye 101 - a fun, easy read to put you fully in the picture on dry eye without talking down to you. Dry Eye FAQ - more condensed highlights of dry eye

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