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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Doctor Janelle Zventek Joints. Let me guess it's not. It's
not German? Is it Finland? Sweden?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Come real close?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Czechoslovakian?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Czechoslovakia? How close? Was I? Geographically?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Pretty close?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay there, that's a cool name. But you're at UAB
callahan I Institute u AB.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I Care act yep, just next ourt accounting.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What do you do there?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yeah? So I'm an Yeah, you got it. I'm an
attending optometrist. So we have our optometry school where we're
training the next generation of optometrists, and then we have
attending doctors who are overseeing the care. And so I'm
teaching optometry students and clinic lecture labs and providing eye
exams for adults and kids.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So this time of the year and Halloween is here,
and we were just talking about this and saw some
pictures the other day with Halloween costumes and these fake
contact lenses people put in to look scary and spooky
and crazy, and they're widely popular. Are these problems or
generally speaking they're okay because you're buying them in like
(01:06):
a party supply store.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, they're a problem.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
To answer your question bluntly, a lot of times, the
hallowing contact lenses go unregulated unfortunately, and so people will
buy them online or from the party supply stores like
you're mentioning, and so they can either be expired.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They can also not fit.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Your eye appropriately, and so a contact lens, when we
wear it on our eye, we want it to fit
exactly how it should. If it fits too tightly, it
can actually cause our cornia not to get oxygen, and
then we start to have eye damage where we could
potentially lose our site permanently. Yes, potentially just a one
night party, it certainly can. And a lot of times
those parties become you know, late events, and so sometimes
(01:48):
individuals will sleep in their contacts and that actually makes
the perfect storm even worse for eye infection.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, my wife wears contacts. I don't even know if
i'd be eligible for it. I've been told that you
know I will, but I guess it's the shape of
your eye in the way it works. But she has
fallen asleep with her contacts in their prescription, and she
says it's like they fuse overnight and it's.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Tough to get them off. You're exactly right, She's pinsion
and squirt and fluids, and how do you even do that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can you permanently scratch your eye?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You can, you can get an infection. You can also
scratch the eye. A lot of times people if they
buy those Halloween contacts, they could even end up being
allergic to them, and your eye can have an allergic reaction.
And so it's always recommended if you're interested in the
Halloween contacts, making sure you're seeing an eye care provider
who can check the fit of the contact and moderate
to make sure that there's no infection happening or allergic reaction.
(02:44):
The contact lens is actually considered a medical device from
the FDA, and so they are regulated. A lot of
times the online retailers will say that it's FDA cleared,
which doesn't mean it's FDA approved. Yeah, that's free exactly,
And so it's always important when you're buying contact lens.
Clinical studies have proven what clinic exactly. It's important to
(03:04):
have an updated prescription that verifies that your doctor has
confirmed the fit of the lens on your eye.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Can you do you sell these?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Great question.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We certainly do sell colored contact lenses at UABA Halloween
YEP for Halloween as well, yep, you got it. We
have a whole contact lens clinic at UABI Care, so
we have specialty contacts that we do as well. And
then I also wanted to mention if you, by chance
purchase some of these contacts, maybe sleep in them, have
an eye infection. It's important to know that you should
(03:34):
go into an eye doctor right away, especially that following morning.
If your vision is feeling blurry. You want to make
sure you're going and to get.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That checked out.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So if I've got a costume and I'm going as
beel Zibob and mister Rid and I need some devilish eyes,
I can call the Calahan eye people and hey, I
have a costume. The only thing missing is some contact
lenses to make me look scary. Can you help me?
And the answer would be yes, we can.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Good question.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Probably not at an eye doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, yes, you got it.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
A lot of eye doctors will actually supply their offices
with the specialty contacts around that time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
McKenzie, you're hearing this. I mean, I don't know where
your thing, but I'm thinking let's go. I mean, if
an eye doctor is going to put it in, yep,
you know it's good to go right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
As long as they check the fit.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
The main thing is that you're buying them online and
you don't know how they're fitting.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
On you, or at a gas station right next to
the energy.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Show exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So if for some reason somebody has a bad infection
or something happens, they can always come in. We have
doctors on call after hours, so if you're feeling like
you have an eye infection or something's going on, you
can always give us a call.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I had no idea that you could go buy these
from a doctor and they you feel a lot better
about going on.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That would think, Oh, you'd have much more peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Do you sell a lot of these? I mean, do
the doctor sell a bunch of these every season?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We used to sell a lot more than we do.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I think that word's gotten out about the risks of them,
and so people are just choosing the safer option and
just wearing their regular, you know, clear contacts. We do
have colored contacts that are quite popular. They're not the crazy,
you know, green or red ones that you're thinking of.
They're more so that they augment the color.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Of your eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Some of these that look like you have cat eyes
or they're slit differently, and they're you know, somebody had
a little blood coming out of one side of it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, those certainly have a higher risk.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And also the plastic that the contact lenses made out
of doesn't breathe as well, and so they're not as comfortable.
They're usually a little bit thicker in the material, and
so a lot of people have stopped wearing them and
just kind of relied on their own costume to kind
of make the Halloween magic.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sometimes you'll see people that have these bright green eyes,
you know, and it's like, are those real? Are those
contact lenses? Do people You know a lot of people
will buy glasses for fashion statements and they don't even
need the lenses. Do people buy fashion contact lenses?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They certainly do, especially if they're going to different conventions
or you know, comic cons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
They'll want those special cares.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What if I just want cool looking green up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We can do that as well.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, I will say the content tech glens manufacturers, who
we trust and are reputable, they've kind of drifted away
from the color contact. It was certainly a fad probably
twenty twenty five years ago, and a lot of people
have drifted away from that just because the studies and
you know, people have hearing about friends that have damage
to their cornea and they don't.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Want to ask it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean a tattoo maybe here and there, but
you know, you start getting into my eyes or inside
my ears and going inside the you know, beyond the
skin level.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Stay out. Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You can't buy a new pair of eyeballs at Walmart,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Not yet. No, give it time.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
AI's coming soon. Yeah sure, all right, Well, thank you
so much for sharing this with us. Basically, stay away
from these things in your eyes unless you're.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Talking to a doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Exactly exactly. We're happy to see you at you ABI
Care if.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You need us, all right, doctor Janelle's Fintech. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thank you,
Doctor Janelle Zventek Joints. Let me guess it's not. It's
not German? Is it Finland? Sweden?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Come real close?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Czechoslovakian?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Czechoslovakia? How close? Was I? Geographically?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Pretty close?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay there, that's a cool name. But you're at UAB
callahan I Institute u AB.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I Care act yep, just next ourt accounting.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What do you do there?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Yeah? So I'm an Yeah, you got it. I'm an
attending optometrist. So we have our optometry school where we're
training the next generation of optometrists, and then we have
attending doctors who are overseeing the care. And so I'm
teaching optometry students and clinic lecture labs and providing eye
exams for adults and kids.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So this time of the year and Halloween is here,
and we were just talking about this and saw some
pictures the other day with Halloween costumes and these fake
contact lenses people put in to look scary and spooky
and crazy, and they're widely popular. Are these problems or
generally speaking they're okay because you're buying them in like
(01:06):
a party supply store.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, they're a problem.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
To answer your question bluntly, a lot of times, the
hallowing contact lenses go unregulated unfortunately, and so people will
buy them online or from the party supply stores like
you're mentioning, and so they can either be expired.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They can also not fit.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Your eye appropriately, and so a contact lens, when we
wear it on our eye, we want it to fit
exactly how it should. If it fits too tightly, it
can actually cause our cornia not to get oxygen, and
then we start to have eye damage where we could
potentially lose our site permanently. Yes, potentially just a one
night party, it certainly can. And a lot of times
those parties become you know, late events, and so sometimes
(01:48):
individuals will sleep in their contacts and that actually makes
the perfect storm even worse for eye infection.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah, my wife wears contacts. I don't even know if
i'd be eligible for it. I've been told that you
know I will, but I guess it's the shape of
your eye in the way it works. But she has
fallen asleep with her contacts in their prescription, and she
says it's like they fuse overnight and it's.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Tough to get them off. You're exactly right, She's pinsion
and squirt and fluids, and how do you even do that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can you permanently scratch your eye?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You can, you can get an infection. You can also
scratch the eye. A lot of times people if they
buy those Halloween contacts, they could even end up being
allergic to them, and your eye can have an allergic reaction.
And so it's always recommended if you're interested in the
Halloween contacts, making sure you're seeing an eye care provider
who can check the fit of the contact and moderate
to make sure that there's no infection happening or allergic reaction.
(02:44):
The contact lens is actually considered a medical device from
the FDA, and so they are regulated. A lot of
times the online retailers will say that it's FDA cleared,
which doesn't mean it's FDA approved. Yeah, that's free exactly,
And so it's always important when you're buying contact lens.
Clinical studies have proven what clinic exactly. It's important to
(03:04):
have an updated prescription that verifies that your doctor has
confirmed the fit of the lens on your eye.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Can you do you sell these?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Great question.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We certainly do sell colored contact lenses at UABA Halloween
YEP for Halloween as well, yep, you got it. We
have a whole contact lens clinic at UABI Care, so
we have specialty contacts that we do as well. And
then I also wanted to mention if you, by chance
purchase some of these contacts, maybe sleep in them, have
an eye infection. It's important to know that you should
(03:34):
go into an eye doctor right away, especially that following morning.
If your vision is feeling blurry. You want to make
sure you're going and to get.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That checked out.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So if I've got a costume and I'm going as
beel Zibob and mister Rid and I need some devilish eyes,
I can call the Calahan eye people and hey, I
have a costume. The only thing missing is some contact
lenses to make me look scary. Can you help me?
And the answer would be yes, we can.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Good question.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Probably not at an eye doctor.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, yes, you got it.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
A lot of eye doctors will actually supply their offices
with the specialty contacts around that time of year.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
McKenzie, you're hearing this. I mean, I don't know where
your thing, but I'm thinking let's go. I mean, if
an eye doctor is going to put it in, yep,
you know it's good to go right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
As long as they check the fit.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
The main thing is that you're buying them online and
you don't know how they're fitting.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
On you, or at a gas station right next to
the energy.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Show exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
So if for some reason somebody has a bad infection
or something happens, they can always come in. We have
doctors on call after hours, so if you're feeling like
you have an eye infection or something's going on, you
can always give us a call.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I had no idea that you could go buy these
from a doctor and they you feel a lot better
about going on.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That would think, Oh, you'd have much more peace of mind.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Do you sell a lot of these? I mean, do
the doctor sell a bunch of these every season?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
We used to sell a lot more than we do.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
I think that word's gotten out about the risks of them,
and so people are just choosing the safer option and
just wearing their regular, you know, clear contacts. We do
have colored contacts that are quite popular. They're not the crazy,
you know, green or red ones that you're thinking of.
They're more so that they augment the color.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Of your eyes.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Some of these that look like you have cat eyes
or they're slit differently, and they're you know, somebody had
a little blood coming out of one side of it.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, those certainly have a higher risk.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
And also the plastic that the contact lenses made out
of doesn't breathe as well, and so they're not as comfortable.
They're usually a little bit thicker in the material, and
so a lot of people have stopped wearing them and
just kind of relied on their own costume to kind
of make the Halloween magic.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Sometimes you'll see people that have these bright green eyes,
you know, and it's like, are those real? Are those
contact lenses? Do people You know a lot of people
will buy glasses for fashion statements and they don't even
need the lenses. Do people buy fashion contact lenses?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
They certainly do, especially if they're going to different conventions
or you know, comic cons and things like that.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
They'll want those special cares.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What if I just want cool looking green up.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
We can do that as well.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, I will say the content tech glens manufacturers, who
we trust and are reputable, they've kind of drifted away
from the color contact. It was certainly a fad probably
twenty twenty five years ago, and a lot of people
have drifted away from that just because the studies and
you know, people have hearing about friends that have damage
to their cornea and they don't.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Want to ask it.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, I mean a tattoo maybe here and there, but
you know, you start getting into my eyes or inside
my ears and going inside the you know, beyond the
skin level.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Stay out. Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You can't buy a new pair of eyeballs at Walmart,
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Not yet. No, give it time.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
AI's coming soon. Yeah sure, all right, Well, thank you
so much for sharing this with us. Basically, stay away
from these things in your eyes unless you're.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Talking to a doctor.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Exactly exactly. We're happy to see you at you ABI
Care if.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You need us, all right, doctor Janelle's Fintech. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Thank you,
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