Fucidin Ointment

Remind me to never apply ointment on my eyes when I’m fucking sleepy and when my mental awareness is reduced to a drunken-like state.

So yesterday (or technically earlier this morning) at nearly 4am, almost half-dozing on my laptop, I went to the toilet, took a tube of ointment that was near my bed, applied it around my eyes and went to bed. I sat up again almost immediately when I felt a slight sting around my eyes, looked at the tube and lo and behold if it wasn’t the wrong ointment!!

Whattt thee fuckk.

I quickly went to my bathroom and washed my eyes rapidly, and applied the correct ointment.. and went to bed. When I woke up at 11am, nothing seemed to happen, in fact my eyes looked less reddish. But several hours later my right eye began to hurt as if someone punched me in the eye, and as the hours dragged by it felt like someone has been punching my eye again and again every 2 seconds.

The ointment I accidentally used was the Fucidin Ointment containing sodium fusidate used especially for skin irritation, sunburnt skin, dry skin, etc. Zomgzomgzomg. A quick search on the Net had the following result which confirmed my worst suspicions:

Sodium Fusidate has been shown to cause conjunctival irritation. Fucidin? ointment should not be used on or near the eye.

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Machowhai. Arghhh.

This is reasonably stupid. I’m not sure if the reason my right eye is aching particulary but not the other is due to the wrong usage of the wrong ointment or not, but it seemed like it. Went to the doctor’s again for antibiotic pills and painkillers.

And I can’t study because of this. I had wanted to complete at least two chapters today but covered only 1/4 of one chapter.

Diediedie.