Nine-year-old Rupert Day suffered a serious eye injury due to grit in his eyeball. He had been taking eye drops for two days when his father accidentally took glue instead of the drops when giving him the treatment.
A father closed his son’s eye for four days after mistaking the tube for medical eye drops
Kevin, the little boy’s father, said, “Rupert scratched his eye a few days ago and we got some eye cream. I went to put it on and then realized I had put super glue in his eye.
I called 999, who advised us to keep rinsing and I was told an ambulance would be coming. I wasn’t expecting the air ambulance.”
Due to the proximity of its airbase to the incident, Yorkshire Air Ambulance sent its Topcliffe aircraft and was first on the scene. Its paramedics bathed Rupert’s eye and administered painkillers until the ground ambulance could get him to Harrogate hospital for further treatment.
“I was very frightened at the thought that I had blinded my son and ruined his life,” said Rupert’s father.
Speaking about his incident, Rupert said, “I was worried if the eye would reopen.”
Rupert spent a few hours in hospital and was unable to open his eye for four terrifying days.
But fortunately, no glue got into his eye and his vision has been completely fine after his traumatic experience.
