Bausch-lomb Incorporated

Bausch + Lomb Ireland Limited

Ruth Julian

Erning Xia

Alok Kumar Awasthi

Jennah L Wolcott

Vicki Barniak

William T Reindel

Catherine Scheuer

A packaging system for the storage of an ophthalmic device is disclosed. The packaging system comprises a sealed container containing one or more unused ophthalmic devices immersed in an aqueous packaging solution comprising (a) one or more osmoprotectants, (b) one or more poloxamer comfort agents and (c) one or more polyol demulcents, wherein the aqueous packaging solution has an osmolality of at least about 150 mOsm/kg, a pH of about 6 to about 9 and is heat sterilized.

Packaging solutions

A packaging system for storing ophthalmic devices such as contact lenses and methods for packaging such ophthalmic devices with solutions is disclosed. The packaging system contains an unused, ophthalmic device in an aqueous packaging solution comprising tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane or a salt thereof; wherein the solution has an osmolality of at least about 200 mOsm/kg and a pH in the range of about 6 to about 9.

Ophthalmic device packaging solutions comprising tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane and nonionic surfactant

Ophthalmic device packaging solutions comprising a poloxamine/erythritol mixture

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