• Approximately 36 hours after surgery, remove the eye pad that was placed on your eye.
• You may need to gently bath the outside of the eyelids with boiled water to clean away blood and ointment.
• Apply a 1cm ribbon of ointment behind the lower lid. (Warm the tube in order to soften the ointment before using it.)
• Place a new pad over a paraffin gauze square that you have placed over your closed eyelids - doubling it as necessary to keep the lids firmly closed - and tape it down with 3 strips of adhesive tape. Attach each strip first to your cheek before pulling it firmly over the pad and pressing it onto your forehead.

• Repeat this procedure next day. After this you are welcome to continue the patching as necessary for comfort.

• Then use the eye-drops (or ointment) four times during the day and the ointment at bedtime for 10 days (or as directed).

 

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