I was listening to my scanner last night, and an ambulance was sent to an address where a 5 year old boy had glued his eye shut with ‘Crazy Glue”. What would be done in the ER to rectify this situation?
They carefully apply a slovent. It’s probably not all that uncommon a thing for them to see.
Haj
In communist Russia, slovent apply you!
But that was in 1960. And only for 20 minutes.
A 1920s style death ray works much better.
While acetone (found in old-style nail polish removers) is usually used to remove superglue, I have a hard time imagining that it would be used around the eyes.
I suspect just warm saline. (The superglue only sticks to the topmost layer of dead skin and this might help the glued skin to slough off.)
Hopefully they’d sedate the little fella first before doing anything…
I suspect they’d have to, after all the ruckus; poor li’l guy would be scared to death!
From drugs.com:
Generally an oil based opthalmic antibiotic is prescribed. It may take a few applications but eventually the superglue will break down.
One can also wait until the skin cells slough themselves off naturally and the glue falls off, but few parents (or patients) are happy with this option. (“I came all the way here and waited all this time and you want me to do nothing? I’m calling your administrator”.)