Video Tutorial based on the World Health Organization Primary Eye Care Training Manual
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Apply Eye Drops and Ointment
YOU WILL NEED
• Eye drops and ointment
• Wipe tissue
• Pen and record card
PREPARATION
• Find a space that is properly lit.
• Seat the person comfortably.
• Wash your hands with soap and water and dry them with clean tissue paper.
METHOD
• Ask the patient to tilt their head backwards and look up. Explain that they might taste the drops in
their throat.
• Shake the eye drop bottle and inspect it to make sure that you have the correct medication and it has
not expired.
• Explain to the patient what you are doing as you instil the drops.
• Gently pull down the patient’s bottom eyelid by retracting it with your index finger. This creates a pocket.
• Hold the bottle a few centimetres above the eye. Press the bottle so as to release one drop of the
medication into the lower eyelid pocket, without allowing the dropper to touch the eye.
• Wait a second and then release the bottom eyelid.
• Instruct the patient to close their eye and press gently for a few moments with a finger over the corner of the eye next to their nose. This will keep the drops in the eye so that they can take effect.
•Wipe away any excess medication which leaks out when they close their eyes.
• For the other eye, ask the patient or caregiver to instil the drops so that you can check it is being
done properly.
• If you have to put in more than one kind of eye drop at a time, it usually does not matter which eye drop
is instilled first. However, allow 3-5 minutes between instilling different eye drops so that the second
eye drop does not wash out the first.
For Ointments
• Gently pull down the patient’s bottom eyelid by retracting it with your index finger. This creates a pocket.
• Hold the nozzle of the tube approximately 2.5cm above the eye.
• Apply a line of ointment about 1 cm long to the inner edge of the lower eyelid from the nasal
corner outwards
Many Thanks to Dr Andrew Blaikie, Ian Gordon & Hellen Onyango to help create this excellent tutorial.
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