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Colorado doctors issue warning as people keep mistaking nail glue for eye drops

Mar 13, 2025, 3:15 PM | Updated: 8:06 pm

This sounds like a cruel punishment or simply one of the worst things you could “accidently” do to yourself…

Doctors with a Colorado hospital system are urging eye drop users to read labels carefully after noting an uptick in cases of people accidentally putting glue into their eyes.

Dr. Richard Davidson, an ophthalmologist with UCHealth, which is headquartered in Aurora, said medical practitioners have noticed it has become surprisingly common for people to mistake nail glue or lash glue for eye drops.

He said nail and lash glues, as well as several other products, can sometimes come in bottles that closely resemble eye drop containers.

One such case went viral in 2024, when TikTok user @breezybre416 shared her experience with accidentally putting nail glue into her eye.

Davidson said doctors sometimes have to scrape adhesive from the surface of a patient’s eye, but the incidents generally don’t lead to any permanent damage.

“It’s rare to cause permanent damage, but it can be very uncomfortable for the first couple of days,” he said.

Davidson and his colleagues urged eye drop users to make sure they carefully read labels before applying eye drops, and keep their drops somewhere separate from any similarly sized or colored bottles.

Colorado News

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