An easy mistake to make
This is more common than you think, although superglue is the usual culprit.
Paula Griffin, 29, squirted the hazardous liquid into her right eye by mistake after waking up with blurred vision.
Her eye was glued shut for eight hours and was only prised open again when doctors cut off her lashes.
Miss Griffin was warned she could have lost her sight forever and is still waiting to be told if there is any lasting damage.
The accident happened when she woke up and reached for a bottle of eyedrops in a bathroom cupboard.
But in her confused state she grabbed an identical-sized bottle of nail glue that was next to it.
Miss Griffin is worried about being seen as a dumb blonde, but she finds herself in the company of an Abbot of a Thai monastery - who further compounded his error by putting thinners in his eyes to try and rectify the problem. The earliest case of superglue-eyedrop confusion seems to have occurred in 1982. One publication (including management advice) describes finding 14 cases in 12 months at one emergency clinic.
Getting into the newspapers, if that rate of occurrence is typical, is a real achievement.
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