Active Ingredient

Glycerin 0.4%

Purpose

• Eye lubricant.

Uses

• To protect against eye irritation from salt water.
• To allow you to see like a mermaid under water.

Warnings

• This is a non-preserved eye drop improperly packaged in a standard eye drop bottle. Do not, if you love your corneas, allow the dropper tip to touch anything (even air).
• Do not use if solution changes color, becomes cloudy, or shows evidence of spontaneous carbonation.

Precautions During Use

• Objects under water are closer than they appear.
• This means sharks.

Directions for Use

• Apply 2 drops to each eye 30 minutes before entering the ocean.
• Apply 1 drop as needed to maintain clear underwater vision, but not more often than once per hour.
• Do not apply more than 6 total drops in a 24 hour period.

Inactive Ingredients

BOPE™, sodium chloride, sterile water

Stop Use If

Your pupils change shape from round to vertical or horizontal slits.

Keep out of reach of children.

• If swallowed, get medical help, ideally at an aquarium.
• If no aquariums are nearby, look for a store that sells saltwater fish as pets, not as food.
• As a last resort, contact a Poison Control Center. Advise them that the active Inactive Ingredient is BOPE™, which is proprietary, may affect your genome, and is not in their database.

Storage

• Keep frozen until use.
• After thawing, store at room temperature up to 3 years.

Questions?

Mermaid Tears™ is a fictitious product imagined by a non-profit patient advocacy organization in order to raise awareness about eye drop safety.

For more information please visit eyedropsafety.org or call 800-484-0244.

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