It's a mistake that could cost him dearly. An American woman ended up in the emergency room after accidentally pouring a few drops of nail glue into her eyes, report WCCB and QC News. This mother, who suffered from eye irritation because of her contact lenses, confused the bottle of glue with that of her eye drops.
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K'netha Faggart explains that she immediately felt a strong burn. “When I went into the bathroom to turn on the water and tried to put some in my eye, my finger was stuck to it,” she said.
A common incident
Taken to the hospital by her daughter, the resident of Concord, Massachusetts, was taken care of by nurses who were unable to open her eye. “My eyelid was glued to my eyeball,” K’netha remembers. The doctor subsequently noticed that his globe was scratched.
The American will have to wear a bandage for more than a month and risks losing all or part of her vision. The ophthalmologist would have told him that this type of incident is not rare: he would have treated five similar cases in recent weeks. Indeed, many Internet users have testified to the same experience under the video posted by K'netha Faggart's daughter on TikTok. To date, it has more than 11 million views.
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