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of magazines, furniture, etc. Ensure their rooms have plenty
of bright lighting and turn off any irons, curling irons, stove
burners and ovens not being used.
Another problem people with impaired vision deal with is
reading labels on their medicine bottles. If they take oral
medication, you can help your loved one by filling up their
pill caddy as needed.
Medicated eye drops can present other problems. As Dr.
Whitman explains, “There are all sorts of little bottles out
there that look alike. I actually had a patient who glued her
eyes shut when she mistook a bottle of fingernail glue for
her glaucoma eye drops. She had both bottles sitting on
her bedside table, because she was fixing a cracked nail
before bedtime.
“We were able to remove the glue, but my advice to her
– and others – is to keep your eye medication in a sepa-
rate place from other little bottles of glue or even eardrops.
You can help out by marking the bottles with brightly col-
ored labels so they’re easier to tell apart, especially if your
loved one uses different types of eye drops for glaucoma,
post-cataract surgery care, dry eye symptoms and other
conditions.”
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