A nine-year-old boy was left with his eye stuck shut for four days after his dad mistook superglue for eyedrops.
Rupert Day, 9, had been prescribed eye drops after getting an itchy eye and dad Kevin picked up a tube - believing it to be the medication - before dropping some into his son's eye.
He then realised it was actually superglue, reports TeessideLive.
“Rupert scratched his eye and we were given some eye cream,” said Kevin.
“I went to put it in and then realised I had put superglue in his eye instead.
“I phoned 999 who advised us to keep flushing it and they said an ambulance was on its way.
“I wasn’t expecting the air ambulance.”
Yorkshire Air Ambulance dispatched its aircraft due to the close proximity of the airbase and paramedics bathed Rupert’s eye and administered pain relief before the land ambulance arrived and took him to Harrogate Hospital for further treatment.
“I had a massive fear that I had blinded my son and ruined his life”, Kevin said.
Rupert spent a few hours in hospital but couldn’t open his eye for four tense days.
He said: “I was worried if my eye would open again.”
Thankfully no glue had damaged his eye and his vision has been completely fine following the ordeal.
Rupert will feature in Helicopter ER, shown on Channel Really at 10pm on Tuesday, November 2.
The Yorkshire Air Ambulance serves five million people across Yorkshire and carries out more than 1,3000 missions every year.
The charity operates two Airbus H145 helicopters and needs to raise £12,000 a day to keep saving lives.
