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Perfect way of giving your eyes an infection.

From the American Academy of Ophthalmologists (aka eye doctors):

#If you're too anxious to insert eye drops: Children and people who have strong reactions to anything near their eyes may struggle to keep their eyes open. If that's the case, try this method instead:

• Lean your head back as far as is comfortable, or lay down on a bed or couch.
• Keep your eyes closed. Hold the eye drop bottle with your thumb and first two fingers.
• Put the other two fingers of your hand on your nose for stability.
• Without touching the bottle to your eyelid, put an eye drop in the corner of your eye near your nose.
• While your head is still tilted back, open your eyes and blink several times until the drop rolls into the eye.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/treatments/how-to-put-in-eye-drops

Don't put drops on your nose.

That’s unsanitary

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Close your eye, drop the eye drop in the inside corner of the eye, open eye. Drops go right in. Works on yourself or a squirmy kid.

should have read this before I replied. This is what I do. Also great when you have to give drops to a little one.

Wouldn't the eyedrop be flushed down the nasolacrimal canal even before you blink? Some eyedrops instructions say that it's undesirable and can cause things.

I would assume that the AAO is aware of such things. I am not a doctor of any kind so I am not a good person to get information from.

This is how I got an eye infection, I never did it again