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How to apply eye drops
It’s not easy applying eye drops, right? Flowing down, falling somewhere else... But it’s not that difficult once you know the right way.
Let’s learn about the proper way to apply eye drops with Dr. Beomjin Cho, of the HanGil Eye Hospital.
If you practice a few of these steps carefully, you’ll soon be a pro at applying eye drops.
1. The first thing you have to do is wash your hands so that the eye drop bottles are less contaminated.
2. Then look at the bottle for the date for the manufacturing and expiration date. The expiration date is usually one or two years ahead. Once you open the eye drops, it would be best to write down the date because the drops should only last a month and should be used within that time period.
3. First, open the lid and hold the eye drop container with your thumb and index finger. Pull down gently on your lower eyelid with middle finger, and squeeze a drop into the eyelid pocket, ensuring the tip of the eye drop bottle does not touch your eye. (Focus your eyes up like you are trying to look in your head, which allows the pupil to rise up and exposes the white of your eye so you can easily apply the eye drops.)
4. Gently wipe away excess with a clean tissue, close eye, then gently press the inside corner of the eye by the nose with the finger for about 5 minutes.
How to apply two different eye drops in same eye
Also, there is something that many people are confused about. Do not apply different eye drops at the same time! If you put in one and put the other one in right away, the first medicine and the second medicine may have unexpected bad effects, If you need to instill different eye drops in the same eye, make sure you space them out by at least 5 minutes.
Easy ways to apply eye drops
The last thing you want to do is touch your eye with the tip of the eye-drop bottle, which could irritate your eye.
To prevent this, the easiest way to have a steady hand while putting in eye drops is to make a hand-rest.
If you use your dominant hand and rest it on the back of the hand that’s making the eyelid pocket, then look up and drop directly into the eye.
It’s an easy and safe trick, so give it a try.
For those people who are afraid of eye drops touching their eyes, there is a way to keep the eye closed and lightly apply the eye drops into the eye.
This is not the best option, but if can’t open your eye because you’re scared, it is possible to spread eye drops by putting them through the eye gap.
Hope this was helpful!
Thank you.
Check out the video on HOW TO TAKE CARE OF MY EYES.
