Broadening Usage of the Eyedrop Container - A Case of Injuries?

Abstract

The familiar plastic "eyedrop" container is increasingly used to package certain non­pharmaceuticals. In certain cases, this has no adverse consequences. In other instances, however, user confusion culminating in eye injuries results when contact lens cleaning solutions, antiseptics, disinfectants, in-vitro diagnostic reagents, eyeglass cleaning liquids and other similarly packaged potentially injurious products are mistaken for common ophthalmic pharmaceuticals by distraught users.