A Florida woman was rushed to the hospital after making a mistake while trying to use eye drops.
Brianne Shipley woke up in the night and put some antibiotics in her right eye to treat a bacterial infection.
But in the dark, he accidentally grabbed his bottle of nail glue and poured it into his infected eye, saying it immediately made him scream in pain.
She said: ‘After it happened, I literally screamed hysterically, told my phone to call 911, and tried to wake my son.
Revealing the pain, he said it felt like his eye was “on fire” and like there were “rocks” scraping against it.
He first ran to the sink and then to the shower to try to wash the glue out of his eye, before running to the emergency room, where doctors removed whole chunks with swabs.
At least three days after the accident, Shipley says the vision in his right eye is still “a little blurry,” but he’s hopeful it will improve.
When he spoke to DailyMail.com today, he was waiting to see a doctor to examine the damage to his eye. In other cases, people have also confused superglue with eye drops.
Brianne Shipley, from Florida, said she got the nail glue in her eye by accident. She is shown above wearing a Morgan lens, which attempts to clean the eye using water to remove any chemicals or fragments.
She revealed the accident in a TikTok that has now racked up more than 2 million views, with many commenting that they had done something similar.
He said doctors told him when he was admitted that the accident was “more common” than many believe.
The bottle of eye drops is a similar size and shape to nail glue, and Shipley, who has not used eye drops before, keeps both by her bed.
Describing the moment he put nail glue in his eye, he said PEOPLE: ‘After receiving the notification (to treat my eye), I blindly approached, grabbed the bottle, opened my eye with one hand and put the drops.
‘As the drop fell, I realized that the consistency of the plastic bottle didn’t seem right. As soon as it hit me in the eye, I started screaming.
“Those first 10 minutes were enormous panic; I didn’t know what was going to happen.”
And he added: “That trip to the hospital was the worst pain: it just burned, it burned, it felt like stones in my eye.”
Shipley also suffers from type 2 diabetes and said that shortly before treating her eye she woke up due to low blood sugar and ate a sweet.
Shipley accidentally picked up the bottle of eye glue in the dark while searching for her eye ointment. She also suffers from type 2 diabetes.
The photo above shows some of the glue fragments that doctors removed from his eye.
The above shows his eye the morning after the accident and how it looked about a day ago. The right eye was affected
As her eye filled with pain, she screamed for her 17-year-old son, who Googled the injury and told her she should run to the bathroom to try to get the glue out of her eye. Doctors later said this probably minimized the damage.
Once in the emergency room, he was given pain medication and doctors examined his eye for tears or abrasions from the glue.
They also installed a Morgan lens, a medical device that continually cleans the eye with water to remove any chemicals or foreign objects such as glue fragments.
He was discharged the next day with eye ointment and has now returned to the hospital for a check-up.
Responding to her video, one viewer said: “It’s crazy how often this happens,” while a second said: “This happens so often I’m surprised they haven’t changed the bottles right now.”
It was unclear what brand of nail glue he accidentally put in his eye, but health officials say online that people who do this should go to the emergency room immediately.
Experts say online that the chemicals in the glue can irritate the eyes and be dangerous to vision. They also said that any smell in the products can cause tears in the eyes and make them feel irritated.
Arizona Poison Centers says, “For people with glue in their eyes, we always recommend they go to a health care facility.” This is the best way to avoid possible eye damage.
“Although there are no documented cases of permanent eye damage from glue in the eye, several temporary problems can arise if you try to remove the glue yourself.”
They also recommended keeping medications in a separate location to prevent someone from accidentally using the wrong bottle.