The woman kept both products in her purse and confused them after falling asleep with her contact lenses on.
USA.- A woman in Michigan, United States, mistakenly applied instant glue to her eye, mistaking it for moisturizing eye drops, and almost lost her vision. The incident occurred last week after the woman identified as Yacedrah Williams fell asleep with her contact lenses on.
After waking around 1 a.m., the woman felt dry eyes and took from her purse a bottle similar in appearance to her eye drops, without noticing that it was a nail glue that she kept.
The substance took effect immediately, causing Williams’s eyelids to stick together. The woman washed her eye with cold water and urged her husband to call emergency services.
She was taken to the hospital, where the doctors managed to remove the glue and explained that she might have lost her vision if not for the contact lens.
“They kept telling me that I was probably going to lose my eyelashes, just like it happened, since they had to pull them to flip the top of my eyelid,” the woman recalled. And she promised never to put nail glue and lube in her purse at the same time.
Ophthalmologist George Williams commented on this incident, explaining that the woman did the right thing by splashing her eye.
“If you ever get something in your eye, what you should do right away is to try to rinse your eye. Hold your head under the tap, grab a bottle of water, keep your eye open and just fill it with water.” expressed the doctor.
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