Renu MoistureLoc and Fusarium Keratitis

In early 2006, a cluster of four cases of fusarium keratitis was seen at the University of California, San Francisco. Each of the four patients used ReNu with MoistureLoc. In fact, three of the four had been young, otherwise healthy women who used ReNu with MoistureLoc exclusively. Ironically, it was a cluster of four cases of fusarium keratitis in ReNu with MoistureLoc users in February 2006 in Singapore that led to ReNu’s withdrawal from the Singapore and Hong Kong markets.