FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Airline rules can lead to eye traumas
View Single Post
Old Mar 26, 2007 | 5:23 am
  #1  
sobore
100k
Conversation Starter
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: ORD MDW
Programs: AA, UA, DL , IHG Plat, Bonvoy Gold - 2009 FT Fantasy Football Champion
Posts: 6,985
Airline rules can lead to eye traumas

http://www.poststar.com/articles/200...a9007e9f18.txt

Two patients who recently called ophthalmologist Howard Weiss recounted similar experiences: Each had transferred contact lens solution into a small plastic bottle in compliance with the federal regulation limiting liquids and gels carried onto airplanes.
But the product each woman then squirted onto her lens wasn't saline solution. It was perfume in one case, hairspray in the other. Both women immediately suffered severe and painful corneal burns when they put the lenses into their eyes. They have since recovered, Weiss said.
sobore is offline