A Florida woman was rushed to the hospital after making a mistake while attempting to use eye drops.
Brianne Shipley woke up at night to drop some antibiotics into her right eye to treat a bacterial infection.
But in the darkness she accidentally grabbed her nail glue bottle and poured it into the infected eye, saying it immediately caused her to scream in pain.
She said: ‘After it happened, I literally was 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 as though there were ‘rocks’ scraping against it.
She first ran to the sink and then to the shower to try and wash the glue from her eye, before rushing to the ER where doctors removed whole chunks using Q-tips.
At least three days on from the accident, Ms Shipley says the vision in her right eye remains ‘a little blurry’ but that she is hopeful that it will get better.
When she spoke to DailyMail.com today, she was waiting to see a doctor who would examine the damage to her eye. In other cases, people have also mistaken super glue for eye drops.
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Brianne Shipley, from Florida, said she put the nail glue into her eye by accident. She is pictured above wearing a Morgan Lens, which tries to clean the eye using water to remove any chemicals or shards
She revealed the accident in a TikTok that has now wracked up more than 2million views, with many commenting saying they had done similar.
She said doctors told her when she was admitted that the accident was ‘more common’ than many believe.
The eye drop bottle is both a similar size and shape to that for nail glue, with Ms Shipley — who hadn’t used eye drops previously — keeping both by her bed.
Describing the moment she poured nail glue into her eye, she told PEOPLE: ‘After I got 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 was falling I realized the consistency of the plastic bottle felt wrong. As soon as it hit my eye, I started screaming.
‘That first 10 minutes was just huge panic — I didn’t know what was going to happen.’
She added: ‘That drive to the hospital was the worst pain — it was just burning, on fire, it felt like rocks in my eye.’
Ms Shipley also suffers from type 2 diabetes, and said that shortly before treating her eye she had woken up because of low blood sugar and eaten a sweet.
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Ms Shipley accidentally picked up the bottle of eye glue in the dark when she was searching for her eye ointment. She also suffers from type 2 diabetes
