Eye-wash

A Comparative Study of Patients Undergoing ReLEX® Smile with One Eye Interface Wash and the Contralateral Eye without Interface Wash

Purpose: To compare the visual and refractive outcomes of ReLEx® SMILE with interface wash in one eye with no wash of interface in the other eye of the patient following removal of lenticule for myopic correction. Design: Prospective, non-randomised, clinical study. Methods: All patient included in the study (n = 40 eyes) undergoing ReLEx® SMILE were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 (n = 20 eyes)...

To wash or not to wash? That is the question.

books on sport medicine. I am not bragging about this but simply stating an easily verifiable fact. I had recently been reading a newspaper article that noted that the second biggest killer of children in the world is not malaria or tuberculosis, nor AIDS. It is diarrhoea. Over 2000 children die every single day throughout the world from this problem. The simplest solution to reducing this dise...

Integrating Wash and Nutrition

Undernutrition is the underlying cause of 45 percent of child deaths each year.1 The term undernutrition covers three primary anthropometric measures: stunting, which is low height for age; wasting, which is low weight for height; and underweight, which is low weight for age. Despite targeted and comprehensive nutrition-specific interventions, the persistent presence of undernutrition globally ...

The Power of Wash

WASH Activities in Formal Education

Target and Solutions Group 1.3.1 " By 2015 develop ten modular education programmes, based on harmonized communication strategies, that foster a better understanding of linkages between water, sanitation, hygiene, food security and health to consumers, practitioners, policy/decision‐makers and health promoters, and to deliver these programmes in 30 countries by 2018 "