Similarities in packaging of cyanoacrylate nail glue and ophthalmic preparations

http://bjo.bmj.com/content/85/4/496.2.full

by networked • 11 years ago

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Someone• 11 years ago

Full-text link: http://bjo.bmj.com/content/85/4/496.2.full

joliss• 11 years ago

Perhaps a mod can replace the submission's URL with this? ^

dang• 11 years ago

Sure. Url changed from http://bjo.bmj.com/content/85/4/496.2.

delinka• 11 years ago

Do there exist any statistics about people mistaking fingernail glue for eye drops? This would indeed be tragic, but I haven't even heard anecdotes about such a thing happening.

StringyBob• 11 years ago

Hidden behind the 'full text' link in the article, there are two anecdotes given - both involving children.

DanBC2• 11 years ago

There are some cites which provide further information. This appears to be more than a couple of children and it has been happening for years.

http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/289/6439/226.full.pdf

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381616

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661943/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC504946/

rprimrose• 11 years ago

This is from 2001, anyone know if any changes were made to address this since then?

DanBC2• 11 years ago

I don't think so. Here's a case from 2010: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442649

Inadvertent ocular cyanoacrylate, or 'superglue', instillation has been reported frequently since 1982 when superglue was repackaged into ophthalmic style dropper bottles. This case report highlights the continuing problem of cyanoacrylate eye injuries and serves as a reminder to healthcare professionals to report such incidents to manufacturers and regulatory bodies, on behalf of their patients, to promote the introduction of universal safety mechanisms on all household chemical containers. Failure of glue manufacturers to introduce safety cap mechanisms has resulted in significant ocular morbidity over the last 27 years, and such incidents are expected to occur until superglue bottles are redesigned.

thatBilly• 11 years ago

I find it interesting that they "feel that the manufacturers of nail glue products should be forced to address some remedial action, to ensure that these preparations are packaged differently from therapeutic preparations".

Shouldn't the manufacturers of these therapeutic products take the lead and differentiate their packaging? If they could force CA glue distributors to change their packaging, the next battle would be forcing eardrops to change theirs, then e-liquids, then homoeopathic stuff and all the other products that are distributed in generic dropper bottles.

Similarities in packaging of cyanoacrylate nail glue and ophthalmic preparations

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