How To Put Eye Drops In Eyes

Let’s face it! Nobody is naturally talented at putting eye drops in their eyes! This typically becomes clearly obvious once you undergo any procedure on the eyes such as cataract surgery, ICL or lasik. Just with anything in life, it takes some experience and practice. Fortunately, this skill isn’t too difficult to learn.

Putting eye drops in eyes is challenging for a few reasons. First, you don’t have the benefit of using your depth perception. You just kinda have to assume that the drop is going in the right location. Starting out, your cheek may get more drops than your eye actually gets. To improve the odds of the drop going into the eye, pull down the lower eyelid and tilt your chin upwards to the sky to create a larger landing area for the drop. Second, stare at the tip of the bottle to ensure that the bottle is centered over the eye. Following these helps to ensure that the eye drop lands right on the surface of the eye.

There is no harm of multiple eye drops in the eye, however, there is no benefit. One eye drop is more than enough volume for the eye. Anything more than one drop just wastes the medication and leads you to run out of drops quicker. To get good at releasing a single drop, slowly press on the bottle until the drop forms at the end of the bottle. By going slowly, you will be able to see the drop form and enlarge until it becomes big enough to fall in the eye. Following which you let go of the squeeze. And voila! You managed to just place one eye drop directly in the eye!

Putting eye drops in the eye doesn’t have to be difficult. By following a few steps, you’ll be a master in no time!

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