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Oh, wait. I was. :-P
And I managed to spill all manner of things in the year and a half I worked in a lab (I still have one or two shirts with acid holes in them), but you'd think "don't put corrosive substances in your eye" would be the kind of lesson you don't need to learn by doing.
Why is this relevant? Well, the last time I went to the eye doctor, he recommended I switch to a new contact solution called Clear Care, which is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide. It seems counterintuitive, but there's a little metal doohickey in the contact case that neutralizes the peroxide so you don't burn your retinas off. Good. Okay.
Now, they claim that you can put the contacts directly in your eyes once you've soaked them for at least six hours, but I like to rinse them off with regular contact solution, just to be safe. Except this morning I reached for the wrong bottle and accidentally rinsed them with MORE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE. OMG THE BURNING! BUUUUUUUURN.
Don't worry, my eyes are fine. I re-rinsed the contacts with the correct solution and flushed out my eyes, and they looked puffy and bloodshot for a while, but they seem okay now. Also, I googled it, and I probably won't go blind or anything from a 3% concentration. But if you'd ever wondered what would happen if you put hydrogen peroxide in your eyes, well, now you know.
And I managed to spill all manner of things in the year and a half I worked in a lab (I still have one or two shirts with acid holes in them), but you'd think "don't put corrosive substances in your eye" would be the kind of lesson you don't need to learn by doing.
Why is this relevant? Well, the last time I went to the eye doctor, he recommended I switch to a new contact solution called Clear Care, which is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide. It seems counterintuitive, but there's a little metal doohickey in the contact case that neutralizes the peroxide so you don't burn your retinas off. Good. Okay.
Now, they claim that you can put the contacts directly in your eyes once you've soaked them for at least six hours, but I like to rinse them off with regular contact solution, just to be safe. Except this morning I reached for the wrong bottle and accidentally rinsed them with MORE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE. OMG THE BURNING! BUUUUUUUURN.
Don't worry, my eyes are fine. I re-rinsed the contacts with the correct solution and flushed out my eyes, and they looked puffy and bloodshot for a while, but they seem okay now. Also, I googled it, and I probably won't go blind or anything from a 3% concentration. But if you'd ever wondered what would happen if you put hydrogen peroxide in your eyes, well, now you know.
