Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:08AM (#14095194)

> snuck me some non-FDA approved drops with chlorine in them

Yikes! I mean, that'd do it, but yikes.

I wonder how much chlorine it takes. Would swimming in the local pool with your eyes open help count as treatment? Probably not, the article says it's "common in tap water, sea water and swimming pools." Still.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by _delirium on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:23AM (#14098550)

My guess is that it was chlorhexidine drops. It's a disinfectant compound that contains chlorine, but isn't directly comparable to the free chlorine that acts as a pool disinfectant. The drops approved in Europe (and used to treat AK) are chlorhexidine 0.02%.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by thrillgore on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @11:42AM (#14098774)

Chlorhexidine is a very common and essential medicine (according to the WHO, at least). It kills damn near anything microbial it touches.

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Re:Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands by piptastic on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:46PM (#14100595)

This sounds right, they were sourced from the UK. Sorry, I don't remember exactly, I was much younger then.

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