Whether you have glasses, contacts, or 20/20 vision after
LASIK, it’s very important to protect your eyes. The University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Ophthalmology
reports an estimate of “… 1.1 to 2.4 million eye injuries occur each year, and
about 42,000 of these injuries require hospitalization.”
While accidents are common for eye injuries, some younger
people intentionally put their eyes at risk in a new drinking game called Vodka
Eyeballing.
Yes, you read that right.
People are actually drinking through their eyes, in an
attempt to get drunk faster. With Vodka Eyeballing, a person will take a bottle
of vodka and put the opening up to their eye and pour the vodka directly onto
the eye. The idea is that the alcohol will be absorbed through the eye and into
the bloodstream faster than drinking it. However, there are no actual facts
that prove this is the case.
The eye can only absorb a very limited amount of alcohol.
The actual alcohol can do more damage and harm to your eyesight – burning
through your cornea and causing permanent damage. Repeated often enough, the
alcohol may even cause permanent blindness.
While not all eye-related injuries can be avoided, this is
one instance where it can be.
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