When I was a child, I was like a tomboy. I was wild everywhere and did not pay attention to hygiene. I often had inflammation of my eyes.
As a result, of course, my mother pressed me to drop eye drops. As soon as the drops came out, my eyes closed. Then my father also came over, turning over his eyelids and taking charge of the drops. Very not easy to drop in, my eyes blink and blink and I squeezed them out again.
There is a lot of joy, but there is also a lot of waste. If waste is put aside, I don’t know how effective it is.
What about you? Do you know how’s eye drops?
The Right Way to Drop Eye Drops
1. To be hygienic, wash your hands first.
Direct contact of dirty hands with eyes may cause eye infection.
2. Get down to business and start dropping eye drops.
The main point of action is: the head is slightly tilted back, and the conjunctival sac between the lower eyelid and eyeball is gently pulled open with the left hand. Hold eye drops in your right hand and drop them into the conjunctival sac.
3. After dripping, close your eyes and press your fingers against the inner canthus for about 2 minutes.
4. Wipe off excess eye drops with clean paper towels.
After the correct demonstration, let’s watch the wrong posture.
The wrong way to drop eye drops
Step 1 Don’t wash your hands
Dirty hands directly contact eyes, be careful of infection.
Step 2 Open the upper and lower eyelids with both hands
Just open the lower eyelid. I was wrong for many years.
3. Drops of eye drops on black eyes
After dropping into black eyes, it will irritate the eyes, resulting in an increase in the number of blinks and insufficient waste and drug effect.
4. The drug effect is not enough. Drop a few more drops.
The volume in the conjunctival sac is limited, and the correct way to drop eye drops is enough one drop at a time.
5. Don’t close your eyes after dripping
Close your eyes, you can let the eye drops fully contact your eyes and give full play to the best drug effect.
Step 6 Do not press the inner canthus
After dropping eye drops, this kind of people must have a deep understanding of the feeling of throat bitterness.
There is a [nasolacrimal duct] at the corner of the eye, through which eye drops can pass and finally let the throat taste the taste of eye drops. Press and hold can effectively block this passage.
Apart from these wrong ways of dropping eye drops, are there any minefields that cannot be stepped on?
Precautions in the Use of Eye Drops
Step 1 Read the instructions carefully
Use in strict accordance with the instructions. Some suspension eye drops need to be shaken well before use.
2. How to store eye drops
Store in a cool and dark place. Please refer to the instructions for details.
3. When using multiple eye drops at the same time,
It is recommended to drop different eye drops at least 5 minutes later.
4. Validity
Like drugs for injection, eye drops also need sterile. After opening, eye drops are easy to breed bacteria and can no longer be used. Therefore, it is generally recommended that those that have not been used up for one month should not be used again.