Eye Spy – The Weird Side of the Internet

Eye Spy – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

I don’t use eyedrops. I’m lucky that I don’t have to, because my eyes are sensitive and I doubt I’ll keep my eye open as I see that giant drop, that deluge coming. I mean if I was doing them for a month and I had serious eye pain, I could adjust, but what if I dripped nail glue into my eye?

Paranoid much? No, but in a Chicago hospital system, people are coming in who have done that.

Dr. Richard Davidson, an ophthalmologist, has noted an increase of people coming into the hospital having accidentally let loose a drop of nail glue (finger nails, not metal nails) or lash glue, or even ear drops into their eyes by mistake.

You know the feeling you get when you see someone else get a papercut, or even think about getting a papercut? That’s what I’m feeling here. Because that glue hardens real fast, and even if you run your eye under water quickly, you’re still going to end up in the ER getting the stuff scraped off your eyeball.

As terrible as that sounds, the doc says that it rarely causes permanent damage, just a couple of uncomfortable days.

So this is where a grey area exists between the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists (from designing garbage receptacles in state parks.) The kneejerk reaction could be either one of two things: design more distinctive bottles, or actually read the label before putting stuff in your eye. And I think that this “tastes great, less filling” argument can really define a person, in where you stand on possible area of life. We don’t even have to vote for candidates anymore, just put this on the ballot and let the parties sort it out.

So what say you? Design better packaging? Watch what you’re putting in your eyes? Both?

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