A woman was left in agony when she mistook a bottle of toxic nail glue for eyedrops.
Paula Griffin, 29, squirted the liquid into her right eye by mistake after waking up with blurred vision.
Her eye was glued shut for eight hours and only prised open again when doctors cut off her lashes.
Paula 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 company secretary Paula woke up with blurry vision and reached for the bottle of eyedrops in her bathroom cupboard.
But in her confused state she grabbed an identical sized bottle of nail glue that was next to it.
The glue is used by beauty professionals to fix false nails and carries a toxic symbol and a warning that it bonds skin within seconds.
Paula, from Bournemouth, Dorset, said: ‘It was first thing in the morning and I woke up with a blurry eye.
‘I had to go to work, so I thought I would just put some eye drops in to sort them out.
‘I was still really tired and I couldn't see very well, so I stumbled into the bathroom and picked the bottle off the shelf.
‘As soon as I squeezed it, I knew something was wrong.
‘It was really thick and gloopy - not like eye drops at all.
‘By the time I realised what had happened, it was too late and I couldn't dodge the liquid completely.
‘I managed to stop it hitting the centre of the eye, and doctors told me later that it saved me from permanent damage.
‘It was agonising. It was burning so much it was my natural instinct to shut my eye.
‘But as soon as I did, my eyelashes stuck fast together and I couldn't open my eye again.
‘I was terrified I'd done permanent damage and I phoned my dad in a panic.’
Paula was rushed to Poole Hospital by her dad Ron, 55, but the accident was so unusual doctors had to contact a specialist eye department for advice on how to treat her.
She said: ‘They gave me paraffin to help dissolve the glue. The doctor told me to keep rubbing my eyes with it and sent me home.
‘But by the afternoon, nothing had really happened and I was in still in a lot of pain.
‘I could feel something scratching my eyeball and I was so scared it was cutting me.
‘I was panicking about losing my sight so went straight to the eye specialists at Bournemouth Hospital.
‘When I got to there they told me I had three options left.
‘I could leave it glued shut until it unglued itself naturally but that would almost certainly cause more damage.
‘I could stay in overnight and keep trying to treat it with the paraffin.
‘Or I could have all my eyelashes cut off in a bid to force the eye open. By then, I was so miserable it wasn't even a decision.
‘I had them cut straight off. Of course it was horrible to have no eyelashes, but I don't regret doing it.’
Paula had to take a week off work and couldn't drive afterwards until her eye got better.
She suffered a cut across her eyeball and now wears false eyelash extensions every day to cover up her bald right eye.
She is still waiting to find out whether she has done any lasting damage.
Dr Simon Bell, consultant in emergency medicine at Poole Hospital, said: ‘We certainly don't see these sort of injuries every day.
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