Oof, I know many people will have an intuitive reaction of "how can you be so stupid" - but even without seeing issues, I can imagine myself on a bad day with ADHD active to mistake packaging like that, not noticing until it's too late. Add to that, that eye drops are of course often used because of sight issues, and mistaking it gets even easier. The packaging really should change with some regulations that make it harder to mix up.

Another reason why it is so great, that the US currently has the ability to create sane and helpful regulations, with institutions funded to design them and make sure they are followed, right? /s

I'm just wondering why everyone seems to be putting their glue even remotely near their eye drops. If I had those two items I'd keep one in a very specific spot

When I was a kid, like ~6 years old, I walked into my parent's room and saw a little bottle of eye drops on the night stand. I guess I was curious, but for some reason I decided to apply them to my eyes.

The bottle was harder to squeeze than I expected, but when a tiny drop finally came out I missed my eye and got it on the edge of my eyelid. Turns out it was superglue and not eye drops. Luckily, it was such as small amount that I was able to wash it off and pretend like it never happened.

I still don't know why some super glue bottles look so similar to eye drops.

There is significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans.

I can't see the problem!

My wife had these peroxide cleaning ear drops and fuck me for accidentally mistaking them for my eye drops. That was about as painful as a root canal.

Oooh fingernail glue. I was picturing this stuff and wondering how that would get confused.

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I can't fathom this. I get there's exceptions like 'well what if you're exhausted' but honestly, never in my life would this happen to me. I know what saline I use, I know a bright red cap means don't use that, and I'd never store my eye drops anywhere near nail glue. Idk. Just seems pretty easily avoidable.

I know someone who did this in the moments immediately following waking up in the morning.

...it was difficult to look them in the eye after that.

Also, they're okay now, but yeah, it was a scary day for them.

thanks new fear unlocked

For anyone as confused as me, the "nails" are fingernails, not the construction part.

Hey everyone, keep your eyes peeled for glue that looks like drops! It can be a real eye opening experience if you make that mistake.

This is one of my biggest anxieties as I always have both around. Sometimes I have to put in eye drops while legally blind. Though it does mean I quadruple check anything that goes in my eyes and know the eye drops containers well

Reminds me of the tide pod thing

https://youtu.be/vFKQ7GflRkk

https://youtu.be/pM6wanZOLtk

I once dropped ear drops in my eye.

They were thick.

Acetic Acid.

It wasn’t fun.

Getting glue on your eyes is actually pretty horrifying to think about

I've always had real bad allergies. Even worse when I was younger and it would usually leave me with dry eyes. When I was a teenager I mistook eardrops for eyedrops. I will never forget that pain. I always triple check before I put anything in my eyes.

Don't use the cap stick that's in the music store

You know, people who habitually put eye drops in their eyes, don't really take care of their eyes well.

This is JUST personal observation, but I know people who will be desperate for the stuff and just put anything anyone hands them into their eyes. They won't even glance at the label, just blind desperate trust. As someone who would be considered legally blind if glasses weren't a thing, it always seemed so fucking stupid behavior to me.

So honestly not very surprising to me. And to those that you use it habitually, have you gone to a doctor for that? Because being dependent on eye drops is definitely not normal or healthy I'm pretty sure?