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Woman rips off top layer of her eye trying to remove Halloween contact lenses
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A MOTHER was left in agony after her Halloween contact lenses fused to her eye and had to be effectively ripped off, as Daily Mail reported.
Nicola Cavanagh bought a pair of £10 'cat's eyes' lenses to wear to a party last weekend. But when it came to the end of the night, the 42-year-old could not get them out. Over the course of seven hours, the lenses had stuck fast to both her eyes, the report said.
Describing the ordeal of trying to remove them, she said: 'It felt like someone was pouring bleach into my eyes.
'I've never felt pain like it. I was screaming - it was absolutely horrific, like stabbing pains.
'I went into the bathroom and splashed water on my eyes. Then my partner got me some eye wash from ASDA but that was excruciating, too.'
After being diagnosed in hospital she was prescribed pain relief, a lubricant gel to moisten the eye and drops to dilate her pupils to improve her vision.
Her partner escorted her from the hospital with her eyes still closed from the pain.
She went to bed when she get home but had to wake every four hours to prise her eyes open to apply drops and ointment.
Miss Cavanagh, who also had to wear sunglasses to keep her eyes rested, said: 'Everything was a bit blurry the next morning. Bright lights are sore because the pupils are dilated.'
She said the damage now seemed to be healing but said: 'It was very frightening. I couldn't see the eye chart the consultant was showing me.'
She has also been off work since the incident and says her sight is so blurry she cannot read the time on her kitchen clock.
Her friend, Shelley Traynor, 28, claims it also took her over an hour to remove one of her novelty lenses, which she claims became stuck to her left eyeball.
She said: 'I got the right lens out OK, but when it came to the left one it was like there was no liquid in my eye at all.
'It was like it became fused to my eye. There was nothing to grab onto, there was no edge.'
The mother-of-two she eventually removed the lens after soaking the eye with warm water.
She added she had followed all of the instructions on the box but her eye was left red and sore.
The supplier of the lenses, Smiffy's, said it was temporarily withdrawing them from sale as a precaution while the situation was investigated.
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