RashoFan
05-04-2007, 11:28 PM
I was coming back from lunch today and I had a contact lens giving me problems. I parked in our employee parking and got some drops out of my purse and fixed the contact problem. I walk into work and start to read over protocols for about 50 mins. I am getting tired of reading(doing it all week), I take a break and I go into the bathroom. I was washing my hands and when I looked in the mirror I noticed that the eye that had the contact problem is FULLY DIALATED( just like what you look like after the eye doctor does).
So at this point I try not to freak out and remove the contact lense and closed my eye and went to my locker and put my glasses on. My asst Manager walks by and I asked him to get one of the other Paramedics for me. He inquires as to why and I show him...He is surprised at how dialated my pupil is.... I get one of the guys to check a few things and a co worker makes an appointment for me to been immediately by an eye doctor.
I go and my vision checks out okayand after we discussed what had caused my pupil to dilate, I get the funny looking sun glasses and go home(early!)
The culprit...allergy eye drops that contain Naphazoline .03% (and Pheniramine maleate .32%). A side effect of Naphazoline is dilated pupils.
I had accidently used the eyedrops instead of saline solution to reinsert my contact lense and it seems that people with light colour eyes( I have blue eyes) are more sensitive to this ingredient. The doctor says he has seen a few people for this before...good to know that I am not the only idiot to make this mistake.
:nerd
So at this point I try not to freak out and remove the contact lense and closed my eye and went to my locker and put my glasses on. My asst Manager walks by and I asked him to get one of the other Paramedics for me. He inquires as to why and I show him...He is surprised at how dialated my pupil is.... I get one of the guys to check a few things and a co worker makes an appointment for me to been immediately by an eye doctor.
I go and my vision checks out okayand after we discussed what had caused my pupil to dilate, I get the funny looking sun glasses and go home(early!)
The culprit...allergy eye drops that contain Naphazoline .03% (and Pheniramine maleate .32%). A side effect of Naphazoline is dilated pupils.
I had accidently used the eyedrops instead of saline solution to reinsert my contact lense and it seems that people with light colour eyes( I have blue eyes) are more sensitive to this ingredient. The doctor says he has seen a few people for this before...good to know that I am not the only idiot to make this mistake.
:nerd