I was at the pharmacy today and I was just browsing around looking at different stuff when I saw a Urinary Medication on the shelf. Well, I got to thinking about the Green Mile, so I picked it up and took a look at it. One of the warnings was:
“This medication will stain contact lenses.” :eek:
I guess some people lead more interesting lives than I care to imagine. 
Even if I had a signature, I doubt I’d have room for it.
Probably the logical explanation is that some time in the past, some particularly clueless dweeb ran out of contact lens cleansing solution, saw this stuff in the medicine chest, thought, “Hey, what the heck, medicine’s medicine, right?”, used it on his contact lenses, which then stained, and then he sued the butts off the manufacturer for not telling him that it would stain his contacts.
So now they put that warning on all the labels, just in case he has a brother.
More likely than not the chemical is non-specific and moves throughout the entire system, including into the tear ducts meaning …
Your piss medication gets into your eyes and stains your contacts.
A bit simpler than “dumbass used it on his contacts”
Or a dumbass could have. After all, I know someone who used rubbing alcohol thinking it would work as well as saline. She missed a day of school.
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
Naw, it just means to clean if from your hands before putting in your contacts.
No, handy, it does not. I have taken this medication and it has a coating to prevent staining your hands when you take it.
First of all, realize that all medicines you ingest are evenly distributed through the body via the circulatory system. The only exceptions are shots and some cool designer antibiotics that attach to the white blood cells. Oh, and Meridia, which isn’t absorbed at all. This particular medicine is also a fairly strong dye. Because it must pass into the urine unchanged, the medicine cannot be metabolized by the body or it will not work. As such, it will be present in any bodily fluid, although the greatest concentration will be in the urine, simply because the body is trying to get rid of it. So you have small quantities of dye in your tear ducts when you take it. Take it long enough and have soft contact lenses, and your lenses will get dyed.
BTW, the drug comes as a small pill, similar to a sudafed pill. If you looked at it, you would realize how unlikely it is that someone could or would apply it directly to their eyes. OTOH, never underestimate the stupidity of the general populace.
Interestingly enough, the OTC version is a reddish brown, but the prescription version is a bright turquoise, with the same side effects. They also both cause severe nausea, esp. if taken on an empty stomach. A fact that I once experienced firsthand with the bright blue version - it was a true technicolor yawn. :eek: