Contact Lens Overwear Syndrome

**Semantic type:** Disease or Syndrome

**Definition:** Ocular pain which may be very intense, accompanied by corneal epithelium damage, conjunctival injection, lacrimation, blepharospasm, photophobia and hazy vision following corneal edema caused by overwear of contact lenses, principally the PMMA type.

**Synonyms:** - CLARE - Contact Lens-induced Acute Red Eye - Immobile Lens Syndrome - Overwear Syndrome