My 80yr old DM phoned me in a panic. She's been prescribed high dose Vit D and was supposed to use the dropper enclosed, but there wasn't one. DS tried to get her a 2.5ml spoon but was given another dropper from the pharmacy.
Yesterday my Dsis apparently helped her put this new dropper in the bottle.
Today she's noticed that the markings on the dropper have come off. She phoned a pharmacy that was open (not the one she got them from) and they said the markings were probably fat soluble and may have melted into the Vitamin D.
She was told by the pharmacist that it would probably be fine and not to panic, but to call her family if she felt odd. So now she's been on the phone to me saying that she has a headache, could it be related? She also said she always has a headache.
DM is neurotic, really neurotic. She's had the fire brigade out several times, had her gas cut off by the gas board as she kept smelling it and they said there may be a leak (there wasn't, it's since been checked and it's OK), worries about food - to be fair she's always been like this, which is why I'm now neurotic and have had to work hard to allow my DD not to become stifled - DM tried to stop me getting my first ever passport in my 40s as she was scared!
My worry is that now (or tonight) she is going to panic about the possibility that the markings have come off and she's consumed them and will be poisoned. I've tried to reassure her, but I know she will phone, possibly late tonight and I don't know what the hell I'm meant to do (apart from reassure). If she is genuinely poisoned then she will need medical help and I'm not a doctor.
I guess I'm asking whether I'm right and that she won't get poisoned by the markings on a dropper. I used to chew pens and get lots of ink in my mouth as a kid, plus I used to chew packets, cake cases, peeled paint (I was a strange child), so I can't imagine tiny markings in a whole bottle would be much, let alone in a 2.5ml dropper?