What is the correct way to use eye drops?

Eyes are very sensitive parts of the body. Students and office workers often need to use eye drops to relieve eye fatigue, and the elderly often need to use eye drops to assist in the treatment of some eye diseases and discomforts. I used to often feel eye fatigue, so I used to use eye drops to relieve it. But now I hear from friends that eye drops should not be used indiscriminately. So what is the correct way to use eye drops? Let's take a look.

Rational use of drugs

Don’t think that eye drops are external medicines and it doesn’t matter how much you apply. In fact, there have been many reports of "a drop of eye drops ruining a life." These drugs include phenylephrine, timolol, tetracaine eye drops, etc., and you should be especially careful with the above drugs.

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Spot cleaning

When you suffer from certain eye diseases, your eyes will produce more secretions. For example, in cases of acute conjunctivitis, there will be a large amount of purulent mucus secretions; in cases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal ulcers, there will be yellow-green secretions. At this time, you should first use a sterilized cotton swab to remove the purulent secretions, or rinse with saline before applying eye drops, so as to prevent the eye secretions from affecting the efficacy of the medicine, or the secretions from entering the eyes with the medicine and spreading, causing foreign body irritation and even leading to secondary infection.

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Appropriate distance

When applying eye drops, the mouth of the eye drops bottle should be kept at a safe distance of about 3 cm from the eyeball. If it is too close, the bottle mouth may easily touch the eyelashes or eyelids, causing drug contamination. More importantly, prevent the bottle mouth from scratching or scraping the cornea to avoid causing damage to the eyes.

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Correct location

When applying eye drops, look upwards, pull open the eyelids with your fingers, and drop the eye drops into the conjunctival sac at the inner or outer corner of the eye, 1 to 2 drops each time. Avoid dropping eye drops directly onto the cornea to avoid irritating the cornea and causing reflexive eye closure, which may lead to overflow of the drug.

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Close your eyes for a moment

After the eye drops are dropped into the conjunctival sac, you should gently close your eyes and rest for a while. Wait until the medicine is fully diffused in the eyes before opening your eyes.

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The above is the correct way to use eye drops. Have you all paid attention to it? In addition, the editor reminds everyone that eyes are the windows of human beings, so we must take care of our eyes and not let our eyes be hurt. We should pay attention to the cleanliness of our eyes. I wish you all good health and a happy life.