DR. JOSEPH DELLO RUSSO

A new article in Primary Care Optometry News suggests that people with certain health conditions, such as Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Spondylitis, Chron’s disease, Diabetes, and even pregnancy and breast feeding, may be good candidates for Lasik.

Dr. Dello Russo explains: “the systemic or general body diseases noted in this review are not approved by the FDA for lasik, not because they have been proven to be harmful. On the contrary – the laser manufacturers simply have not performed studies with their lasers on people with these general diseases, so the FDA does not know what would be the results of performing Lasik in patients with these groups of diseases. Therefore people who suffer from these maladies are not “approved” since they were never tested by the laser companies.”