Is VD or other bacteria as readily transmitted by LASIK as it is to newborns?

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The Standards suck - 28 Jun 2005 17:51 GMT

Without 100% sterilization of all things that touch the eye or could
even pass it between patients, it makes sense anything passing from
mother to newborn can just as readily be transmitted by eye surgery.

If CJD can be transmitted readily then this just makes sense. With
the incidence of herpes and other VDs in the population, how many would
have it in their eyes? It would just take one patient to transfer it
to all the others that same day.

>Many organisms can cause infection in the eyes of newborn infants. The most common bacterial infections with potential to cause serious eye damage are gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhea) and Chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis), which can be passed from mother to child during birth.

http://www.shands.org/health/information/article/001606.htm

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Mike Tyner - 28 Jun 2005 17:56 GMT

> Without 100% sterilization of all things that touch the eye or could
> even pass it between patients, it makes sense anything passing from
> mother to newborn can just as readily be transmitted by eye surgery.

How many LASIK surgeries are done without sterilizing the instruments?

-MT

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