Michigan Woman Almost Lost Her Vision After Mistaking Nail Glue For Eye Drops

A Michigan woman nearly lost her vision last week after she mistook nail glue for eye drops in a midnight goof-up and used it in her eyes.

Yacedrah Williams told WXYZ that she woke up from her sleep at around 1:00 a.m. on April 15 seeking to remove her contact lenses and searched her purse for a white bottle of eye drops. Williams said she mistook the bottle of nail glue, which was also there in her purse, for that of the eye drops and ended up having her eyes glued shut, literally.

"I was like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ It dropped in my eye, and I tried to wipe it away. It sealed my eye shut," Williams told the outlet.

As splashing cold water into her eyes didn't help, Williams asked her husband to call 911.

She was rushed to the hospital where doctors managed to remove the lenses and open her eyes but the mistake cost the woman her lashes. "They said that contact saved my vision. They kept saying you’ll probably lose your lashes, which I did because they had to pull on it and flip the top of my lid," she said.

Dr. George Williams, the head of Beaumont Health’s Department of Ophthalmology, told WXYZ that she is not the first person to make the mistake. “If you ever get anything in your eye, the immediate thing to do is try to flush your eye out. Either hold your head under a faucet, get a bottle of water, hold your eye open and just flood your eye. You’ll make a mess, but you may save your vision,” Williams said.

Doctors said the lenses protected her from going blind.

Williams said the doctors advised her to read the product’s name on the bottle out loud before using them to avoid such problems.