To have screamed at DH about the eyedrops?

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Last year DH and I got sore itchy hayfever eyes. I bought some drops. A few days later DH came home and announced that we had been doing the eye drops wrong - Shiela from work had told him that rather than dropping it directly into the eye - you should drop it onto the corner of your nose and let the liquid roll into your eye. I said I disagreed with Shiela and would continue doing it properly my way.

He spent all summer doing it Sheila’s way.

Now yesterday I bought some more drops as we’re struggling again. DH said to me “don’t forget, it’s corner of the nose and let it run in”

I screamed and said that’s stupid! Just drop it into the bloody eye like a normal person!! He continues to say I’m doing it wrong and last night I had to sit and watch him dropping these bloody drops onto his face with his eyes closed!!??

The most annoying bit about it - Sheila has no medical experience. I’m an ex-qualified nurse - yet DH takes Sheila’s word as gospel!

I can see how you might be driven to screaming in the end by that persistent and irritating behaviour.

Yes exactly. It's asking for trouble as irritated tear ducts are very unpleasant and it can also be very painful, depending on the type of drops, as well as risking introducing infection into the duct itself.

When the first lockdown was announced, my DP spent a good half hour explaining to me why it was necessary, how disease is transmitted and how a vaccine would work once one was formulated. I'm an epidemiologist.

Classic, Helena.😂

I "thanked" you because we can no longer "lol" people

Risking causing carnage here but I remembered reading this thread so looked it up today to remind myself of your husbands tip because I struggle with eye drops and also due to severe eye dryness causing pain I can't really open them to put the drops in anyway...Worked a treat 😂 thanks Sheila.

I will add to the carnage! Have had two eye surgeries and they advised to rest the neck of the bottle on the bridge of your nose diagonally and open the eye with two fingers and squeeze that works well. It also works well if you lie flat on a bed and squeeze directly onto the eye and wait a few minutes to let it do its job. Not much use if you are at work though! Or on a train!