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Video Tutorial based on the World Health Organization Primary Eye Care Training Manual • Download it here the full training manual here- https://www.afro.who.int/publications... • Apply Eye Drops and Ointment • YOU WILL NEED • • Eye drops and ointment • • Wipe tissue • • Pen and record card • PREPARATION • • Find a space that is properly lit. • • Seat the person comfortably. • • Wash your hands with soap and water and dry them with clean tissue paper. • METHOD • • Ask the patient to tilt their head backwards and look up. Explain that they might taste the drops in • their throat. • • Shake the eye drop bottle and inspect it to make sure that you have the correct medication and it has • not expired. • • Explain to the patient what you are doing as you instil the drops. • • Gently pull down the patient’s bottom eyelid by retracting it with your index finger. This creates a pocket. • • Hold the bottle a few centimetres above the eye. Press the bottle so as to release one drop of the • medication into the lower eyelid pocket, without allowing the dropper to touch the eye. • • Wait a second and then release the bottom eyelid. • • Instruct the patient to close their eye and press gently for a few moments with a finger over the corner of the eye next to their nose. This will keep the drops in the eye so that they can take effect. • •Wipe away any excess medication which leaks out when they close their eyes. • • For the other eye, ask the patient or caregiver to instil the drops so that you can check it is being • done properly. • • If you have to put in more than one kind of eye drop at a time, it usually does not matter which eye drop • is instilled first. However, allow 3-5 minutes between instilling different eye drops so that the second • eye drop does not wash out the first. • For Ointments • • Gently pull down the patient’s bottom eyelid by retracting it with your index finger. This creates a pocket. • • Hold the nozzle of the tube approximately 2.5cm above the eye. • • Apply a line of ointment about 1 cm long to the inner edge of the lower eyelid from the nasal • corner outwards • Many Thanks to Dr Andrew Blaikie, Ian Gordon Hellen Onyango to help create this excellent tutorial. • • #Who #eyecare
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