Can anyone help regarding adminstering eye drops please?

Question

Can anyone help as I have difficulty in administering eye drops to myself, and they just run down my cheek. I have an Autodrop device but the neck of the drop bottle is not designed to align

Answer 1

Don't try to put the drops directly on the eye..Pull out the lower lid and drop the medication into the pocket. Try not to touch to tip of the application to the eye or lid so it is not contaminated.

Answer 2

It's mainly a matter of practice and not being scared! Tip your head right back, hold your eye lids apart with your fingers and hold the eyedropper directly over your eye until you can see it, so you know it is in the right place. Then roll your eye back in your head so you don't have to look at it. Then just squirt. The first few times you are still going to want to recoil and flutter your eyelids, but be firm with yourself and you'll get the hang of it. Good luck.

Answer 3

Its easy, head back slightly , look in a mirror, pull the skin at the bottom of your eye down so theres a gap between your skin and the eye ball, and put the drop in the gap, blink a few times.

Answer 4

Some of the drop will run off, but as long as the drop runs over the eye you will be ok....;

Answer 5

Lie on bed and hold drops over eyes. Or get a friend to help if you have real trouble.

Answer 6

Tilt your head right back, administer to the corner of the eyes, blink repeatedly.

Answer 7

you need to aim for the corner of the eye nearest to the nose, as long as it hits the eye it's fine, some will always run out, this is normal, you may also 'taste' them in the back of your throat, this is also ok.

Answer 8

get a friend or relietive to help u coz drops can be buggars to put in ur own eyes