Warning to contact lens wearers!

Lens solution linked to fungus outbreak
Manufacturer suspends shipments of ReNu, generic solution

Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Posted: 8:36 a.m. EDT (12:36 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bausch & Lomb voluntarily suspended shipment of a contact lens solution after federal health officials linked it Monday to a fungal eye infection that can cause temporary blindness.

Federal and state health officials have interviewed just 30 of those patients. However, of the 28 who wore soft contact lens, however, 26 reported using Bausch & Lomb's ReNu brand contact lens solution or a generic type of solution also made by the Rochester, New York, company.

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The specific product in question is "ReNu with MoistureLoc". Unfortunately, none of the news reports that I've[*] read say what is the name of the generic cleaning soluntion that Bausch & Lomb makes.

* Link, etc from a friend who reads the news