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A seven-year-old girl has been told she will not lose her sight after 
her eye was glued shut in a bizarre accident. Michelle Skidmore, from 
east Cleveland, accidentally used nail glue instead of eye drops to 
treat her daughter.

Doctors have said Karen - who could not open her eye for three days - 
may have suffered a scratched cornea.

Ms Skidmore said the two containers were almost identical and she felt 
"awful" at what happened. She urged other parents to carefully check 
medication before giving it to their children.

Ms Skidmore said: "On Friday she was diagnosed with conjunctivitis and 
I went to give the drops to her. Unfortunately I had some nail glue in 
the cupboard at the time and I picked up that instead. When I realised 
what I had done it was too late as her eye was glued shut by then."

"She can see through her eye now, but it is only half open."

She added: "The bottles are very, very similar in colour - they are 
both lilac and pink - and they have even got a similar logo on them. 
It was a stupid mistake, but if you see the bottles they are almost 
identical with the same nozzle and everything."


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[Lifted from the BBC]