AIM: To evaluate the postoperative reaction and corneal wound healing of patients wearing therapeutic soft contact lenses after the Pterygium surgery.

METHODS: Totally 100 eyes of 88 patients with unilateral primary pterygium who underwent simple excision combined with conjunctival autograft transplantation were randomly divided into treatment group and control group(each 50 eyes). In treatment group, patients were asked to wear therapeutic soft contact lenses after the surgery while pressure bandage was performed at 2d postoperatively in control group. Antibiotic eye drops and drops to promote the corneal wound recovery were given to all patients, and then irritation symptoms and the recovery level of corneal wound were observed.

RESULTS: Healing speed of the patients' corneal wound in treatment group was faster than the control group after the surgery. At the same time, it had alleviated the corneal irritation symptoms effectively and shortened the duration compared with the control group.

CONCLUSION: Wearing therapeutic soft contact lenses after pterygium surgery can accelerate corneal wound recovery and alleviate the eye irritation symptoms effectively, as well as improve work efficiency of the medical staff. It is worthy of popularization and application.