Eye Drops Are Too Large
We need smaller pipettes, stat. According to ProPublica , the eye drops are so large that they contain more liquid than can fit in your eye. Fortunately, there may be an adapter on the way that doesn’t waste half of your expensive glaucoma medication.
You may not mind the usual drugstore drops rolling down your cheek, but expensive medicines are packaged in bottles of the same type. For example, drug pricing site GoodRx reports that common post- op eye drops include steroids and antibiotics, which can cost over $ 100 and even $ 200 for a small bottle. Some glaucoma medications are even more expensive . And half of that will only ruin your makeup when it hits the floor.
So I’m looking forward to Nanodropper , which is now in prototype stage. Its creators, including research scientist Allisa Song, recently won a design competition and are seeking funding to produce their device. It’s a cheap adapter that can be screwed onto a standard dropper bottle and we need it – or something like that – for every last drop of this expensive eye medicine to get into our eyes, where it belongs.