HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR EYE DROPS OR OINTMENT

PLEASE FOLLOW YOUR DOCTOR'S ORDERS IF  THEY DIFFER FROM THIS SHEET

• Wash your hands with soap and water.
   
• Look toward the ceiling with both eyes open.
   
• Pull lower lid down - steady your hand on your forehead.
   
• Put a drop of medicine or small strip of ointment (1/4 inch) in the sac
  behind the lashes of the lower lid.
   
• The tip of the dropper or ointment tube should not touch the
  eyeball itself.
   
• Do not give more than one eye medicine at a time - wait 5
  minutes between medicines.
   
• When using both ointments and drops, use the ointment AFTER
  the drops.
   
• Try to keep your eyes closed for one minute after instilling drops
  to obtain maximum benefit from medications.