We all know that sometimes smart people do dumb things. This can be especially true for college students who have a lot of time and new-found freedom.
I recently read about a trend in the US and England among college students: putting a corrosive solvent in their eye. Why? To get drunk? What is the solvent? Alcohol, specifically vodka. This is called Vodka Eyeballing and is more common than you might think.
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I can understand why college students want to find a way to get drunk even faster than doing shots. I can understand that exposing the tissues of your eye to vodka can allow this by absorbing the alcohol straight into your you bloodstream, bypassing the stomach.
But I also know the lethal effect that alcohol has on human cells and that the eye is among the most delicate and IMPORTANT parts of the body.
Do not put Vodka in your eye. It is just as stupid as it sounds.
Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
Located in the Westchase area of Tampa.
This is crazy and sad that our young people feel the need to escape reality and do it in such scary ways.
This is crazy and sad that our young people feel the need to escape reality and do it in such scary ways.