Anybody have any very good tips to help with getting eye drops into a v. sore eye?

[TooTicky]

We have to do about 14 a day....

14?! eyes, people or drops??

in whom? if a child - when she/he is sleeping? then the rest, ermmmm, bribe with chocolate?

you can drop it into the corner when the eye is closed then get them to blink and move eye around

14 drops per day in ds2 (6 and a good shrieker)
Really, in the corner when closed? That could help a lot.

onto the inner corner of a closed eye is the method used on hosp ward i work on, if patient unable to tolerate it any other way (this for adults)...slightly less effective i think than it going straight into affected eye but better than nothing! another tip to help avoid poking recipient in eye with dropper is to hold the side of the dropper against the forehead/eyebrow iyswim, so the drop falls backwards into the open eye (hard to describe that, hope that made sense).

tHANKS. dS2 FINDING IT V. HARD TO OPEN HIS EYE.
Oops.

def def do it in closed eye then. get him to lie still and drop in inner corner, then ask him to look at ceiling as much as he can and move eye around, looking in all the corners!

Many many thanks, that will help a lot