Newly published research highlighted the minimal, long-term impact on ocular health in children wearing daily disposable soft contact lenses (CLs), adding to the growing body of evidence supporting contact lens wear in children for myopia control. 

Investigators followed 144 children (8-12 years old) as part of an international multi-centre, double-masked, randomised clinical trial for CooperVision’s MiSight 1 day contact lenses.  

“Ultimately, our work suggests that placing children in daily disposable contact lenses is a successful way to correct their vision, in addition to the myopia control benefits of MiSight 1 day. This should provide eyecare professionals and parents even more assurance when considering myopia control options,” said author Jill Woods, head of clinical research for the Centre for Ocular Research & Education, University of Waterloo, Canada.  

The study is the longest to report specifically on the physiological response to daily disposable soft contact lens wear in young children and adolescents. There were no serious contact lens-related adverse events and the low incidence rate of corneal infiltrative events was equivalent to 6.1 per 1,000 wearing years – similar to rates in adults wearing one-day lenses. Ocular health, as determined by biomicroscopy after six years of full-time wear (representing more than 5,000 aggregate measurements of each variable, assessed at six-month intervals) was similar to baseline observations prior to commencing lens wear.  

The paper has been accepted by Contact Lens and Anterior Eye and is available free via open access.