An 81-year-old Buddhist monk who mistook superglue for eyedrops has regained sight in one eye after undergoing surgery to remove the glue, The Nation newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Phra Khru Prapatworakhun underwent a two-hour operation at provincial Angthong Hospital using acetone solvent to remove the glue from his right eye, the paper said. Doctors planned to work on his right eye later.
The elderly monk from Mathuros temple in Muang Angthong district, about 100km north of Bangkok, told the paper that he had gone to the temple’s medicine cabinet looking for eyedrops to soothe an itch on February 17.
But he mistakenly took a tube of superglue instead.
”I squeezed several drops on the floor and saw a clear liquid, so I put four drops into each eye. In about a minute, my eyes felt cold and then sealed closed,” he told the paper earlier this week.
At the suggestion of another monk, he applied some paint thinner to try to get rid of the glue, which only caused his eyes to burn, he said. – Sapa-AFP