Not Medical Advice: If contacts the eyes, common ingredients in toilet bowl cleaners such as hydrochloric acid or sodium acid sulfate may cause blindness. In the garage, sulfuric acid found in car batteries also cause loss of eyesight.
Potentially dangerous chemicals can be found in every room in your home. If not properly stored or used, these products could end up in you or your child’s body or on you or your child’s skin and cause minor to serious and even life-threatening health problems.
See Household Chemicals Chart from ClevelandClinic.org.
To prevent chemical damage to the eye, wear protective goggles whenever working with chemicals.
If your eye is exposed to chemicals, the most important way you can limit the damage is to start flushing the eye with water immediately. Use a strong steady stream of clean water. Arrange for immediate evaluation by a doctor. Continue the flushing until you are ready to go.
Learn more about chemical injury to the eye at www.drugs.com.