Safety Measures

Eye injuries at home

• Undertaking Do It Yourself (DIY) activities and not wearing the appropriate eye protection.
• Domestic injuries include those from gardening, cleaning products, blunt or penetrating eye trauma from household items.
• Injuries from pets’ claws.
• Fingernails (a child’s or your own).
• Tripping or falling.
• From beauty products such as hair brushes, mascara wand, eyeliner pencil.
• And other causes such as putting superglue or cosmetic products into the eyes since these items are very similar to eye drops.

• Take care when applying your eye make-up.
• Do not store your eye drops in the same place as other similar household items such as superglue.
• Make sure that all of your carpets and rugs around the house are properly fitted or have an anti-slip mat underneath.
• Wear well-fitting bedroom slippers when indoors.
• Keep children’s nails short.
• Never look directly at the sun, especially when there is an eclipse.