Florida woman rushed to hospital after serious eye drop mistake causes burning pain

A Florida woman was rushed to the hospital after she made a mistake while attempting to use eye drops.

Brianne Shipley woke up during the night to instill some antibiotics in her right eye to treat a bacterial infection.

But in the dark, she accidentally grabbed her bottle of nail glue and poured it into the infected eye, saying it immediately made her scream in pain.

She said:After it happened, I was literally screaming hysterically, telling my phone to call 911 and trying to wake my son up.”

Revealing the pain, she said it felt like her eye was ‘on fire’ and like ‘stones’ were scraping against it.

She ran first to the sink and then to the shower to try to wash the glue from her eye, before rushing to the ER where doctors removed whole chunks with cotton swabs.

At least three days after the accident, Ms Shipley says the vision in her right eye remains “a bit blurry” but she is hopeful it will get better.

When she spoke to DailyMail.com today, she was waiting for a doctor to examine the damage to her eye. In other cases, people have also mistaken super glue for eye drops.

Brianne Shipley, from Florida, said she accidentally applied the nail glue to her eye. She is pictured above with a Morgan lens, attempting to clean the eye with water to remove any chemicals or shards

She revealed the accident on a TikTok that has now racked up more than 2 million views, with many comments saying they had done the same.

She said doctors told her upon admission that the accident was “more common” than many think.

The eye drop bottle is the same size and shape as that used for nail glue, with Ms Shipley – who had not used eye drops before – keeping both by her bedside.

She described the moment she poured nail glue into her eye, she said PEOPLE: ‘After I received the notification [to treat my eye]I blindly reached over, grabbed the bottle, opened my eye with one hand and put the drops in.

‘As the drop fell, I realized that the consistency of the plastic bottle felt wrong. As soon as it hit my eye I started screaming.

‘Those first ten minutes were just a huge panic, I didn’t know what was going to happen.’

She added: ‘That drive to the hospital was the worst pain – it just burned, it felt like bricks in my eye.’

Ms Shipley also suffers from type 2 diabetes and said she had woken up due to low blood sugar shortly before having her eye treated and had eaten a sweet.

Mrs. Shipley accidentally picked up the bottle of eye glue in the dark while looking for her eye ointment. She also suffers from type 2 diabetes

Above are some pieces of glue removed from her eye by doctors

The above shows her eye the morning after the accident, and what it looked like about a day ago. The right eye was affected

As pain engulfed her eye, she screamed for her 17-year-old son, who Googled the injury and told her to rush to the bathroom to try to wash the glue from her eye. Doctors later said this likely minimized damage.

Once in the ER, she was given painkillers and doctors then searched the eye for any tears or abrasions caused by the glue.

They also fitted a Morgan Lens, a medical device that continuously cleans the eye with water to remove chemicals or foreign objects such as glue shards.

She was discharged the next day with an ointment for her eye and has now returned to hospital for a check-up.

Commenting on her video, one viewer said: “It’s so crazy how often this happens,” while a second said: “This happens so often I’m surprised they haven’t changed the bottles at this point.”

It’s not clear what brand of nail glue she accidentally put in her eye, but health officials say online that people who do this should go to the emergency room immediately.

Experts say online that chemicals in the glue can irritate the eyes and be dangerous to a person’s vision. They also said that any fragrances in the products can cause tears in the eyes and cause them to become irritated.

The Arizona Poison Centers say, “We always recommend that people with glue in their eyes go to a health care facility. This is the best way to prevent possible eye damage.

“While 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 place to prevent someone from accidentally using the wrong bottle.