The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning a bacterial infection, possibly linked to a brand of over-the-counter eyedrops, has left one person dead and three others with permanent vision loss Dr. Akshay Syal outlines the symptoms of the infection and what preservative-free EzriCare Artificial Tears have to do with it.
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#eyedrops #CDC #EzriCare
Just great. Wtf.
Great! As if I didn’t have enough other stuff to worry about!
😲😂
Things like this have always popped up, we just have access to the information more readily now.. no need to let this stress you out. Live your life and enjoy it to the fullest… Don’t spend your days stressing about news headlines.
@NC Hawks Fan Thx. I feel better now.
Made in India. When we get our critical manufacturing back into the USA, we’ll all be better off!
Majority of medicine is manufactured in India if you look closely.
This is the dumbest take. You do realize the biggest pharma pills especially generics you probably take are from there?
@S N YES I do realize that! I also have huge issues with farming out our jobs.
@callingbell not even close, it’s mainly from China which is worse
It wouldn’t surprise me that some of the chemicles used to make this stuff originated in china.
Guessing they actually just had too many boosters
guessing grade 7 is your highest grade completed??
@Bluecollarguy lmaoooo
Emphasis on the *guessing*
Guessing your mom wishes she aborted.
Did the CDC do a study on people dropping dead like flies from heart conditions yet?
Russian bot says what?
They were paid not to.
What happened?
I searched this up a few days ago…. Wtf
Benzalkonium chloride (BAC), the most common preservative in ophthalmic preparations, plus is in nasal and oral otc meds, topical meds, lotions & creams, cosmetics, beverages & foods, pharms, hand sanitizers, spray cleanera, listed as either a disinfectant or preservative….
…. leads to subconjunctival fibrosis, alters lipid homeostasis and impact neurodevelopmental processes, and causes DNA strand breaks in human corneal epithelial cells, and much much more. It’s been grandfathered in since the 40s, usually under a fed grant, despite thousands and thousands of attempts to get it banned.
It literally causes an inflammation of mucus membranes, and is in otc preparations that are to relieve inflammation.. and eventually settles in the lungs. Talk about creating a problem to sell the solution! In multiple ways.
Look it up!
Was the agent responsible for this horror disclosed? If not, why not? If this to help people they need to know what the harmful agent is, and what ingredient it’s affiliated with, otherwise no one knows anything more than fear of it all. Is that helping or hurting?
We’re responsible for how we influence others lives, wether we believe it or not. Gaining anything from negatively influencing others, is what has gotten us into this mess, and is what the ancients warned us about saying the cannibalistic spirit was caused by a brain eating parasite that would take over the world. They called it Wetiko. Don’t be a Wetiko.
#EscapeTheMatrixThroughThePresent!
Really???? Wow!!! Wtf!!!
The women need to stop making noises when the other person is talking
They’re both wet bc it’s a handsome doctor…
@Stanley Kowalski bro… I’m a woman and you got me laughing and shaking my head in agreement. Wtf is wrong with people these days?
For sure!
@Stanley Kowalski your mother will be mad you are on social media little boy
You must be easily irritated.
Look they may have a recall, but when you have no money to get a lawyer, then you never make it court. Like me 5 times, being homeless, no one tells you anything but I’m not paying you!
Just Trust the CDC
Good grief those newscasters (esp the women!) are awful.
What about vaccines?
Vaccine causing a brand specific bacterial infection?
Can cause death if you use it, makes harry potter joke.
These people are too disconnected from reality.
Everyone is Desensitized to death its scary
@C You’d think differently if that was someone you loved or a friend. Don’t be ignorant.
@Mikey nah, not a baby. If I died and someone made a joke at my funeral, I would be happy. Life is filled with death, might as well enjoy it.
@C No you are very ignorant. I’ve seen your comments on other videos. Karma will catch up to you one day.
@Mikey boohoo 😥
Oh snap, I use these
You should stop 😅
Feeling ok?
Me too crazy
So sorry for anyone suffering from eye drops$! Please don’t ever use anything with side effects!! And most medicine has serious side effects!!
Time to fly to the Bahamas and disappear with whatever money left in the bank. Bankruptcy incoming 😁
These females are very annoying 😳
Mr. beast will get your vision back
How can this not trigger a recall???!!!!!
It’s done on purpose.. wake up
@Rolando R proof?
@kava REad for yourself the side effects of medicine. Many times the side effects are worse and can cause death…..
@Rolando R And this is all by design. All to cause the death and destruction of mankind. The loss of vison and Death is not caused by a bacterial infection, but from the poison “Artificial Tears”.
I would hope that the company was pulling finished product off the production line and from retail locations periodically to do quality checks.
Funny thing is, I went to put eye drops in my eyes the other day. The darn bottle was all dried up. Huh?
Divine intervention!
@anonimai 😂 Absolutely!
Blessing given freely.
Does this explain McCarthy’s lack of vision?
50 cases & recalling is an abundance of caution …
How about report where they were sold.
I think you need a prescription for drops like that, usually, especially name brands.
I also used them i stopped after two uses my eyes were on fire after using them , I ordered them from Amazon they came in 2 packs , no wonder I have blurry vision I was sick for a week or so thinking it might be
a viral flu it was quite a wierd sickness
Wow This is scary. I use them too
The caliber of reporting at NBC is second to none. These journalists effortlessly dispense the mother’s milk of emergency life saving awareness to spare our communities death or illness without overlooking comic relief for the viewer. NBC really seems to care about doing good in the general community. Bravo!
You a bot or something?
@CockSmasher9000 or sycophant
@CockSmasher9000 I was just being sarcastic…that’s quite cocky of you to ask, though. Thanks & have a good night.
I bought these from Amazon I went back in November and I went in today to file a return and IT’S NOT LISTED ANYMORE NOR POSSIBLE TO RETURN. 😡
And yet, they just made the announcement for the recall. Only in America … no testing done before it hit the shelves. Keep looking up everything before using. Computer/library education … since the watchdog departments do not do what they were established to do.
I hope this company gets closed for good, guilty parties put to jail for good, and big money paid to the victims. Loss of sight cannot be restored by money.
thanks mom
It’s probably the user expose it on a contaminated place like their bag. Also, their dirty crusty buggy eyelashes is the cult.
She REALLY was affected by this story!!! I’m going to go out on a limb and sau she uses eye drops regularly…..
Right when you need to use eye drops in this pandemic because of itchy eyes with the spread of infection – what a solution to the problem, just make one of the brands of eye drops a killer brand to add to the pandemic.
Scary!
Another report said these drops didn’t have any preservatives in them so the bacteria grew but CDC thinks they are still ok to use.
I work in a specialty pharmacy and my focus is on cystic fibrosis patients. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is very commonly found to be colonizing in their lungs so they have to inhale tobramycin via nebulizer every day, usually one month on and one month off. It’s not a cheap drug! And if the tobramycin doesn’t eradicate the bacteria they usually move on to inhaled aztreonam, if not already being admitted for IV antibiotics.
Stick with Visine y’all. Never heard of this off brand
You get what you pay for. these are litterly the cheapest lubricant drops🤦♀️
Pretty sure nobody “paid” to contract pseudomomas aueruginosa
@Nadine D I actually use these drops because they were inexpensive. Im talking about myself!!😫😫😫😫😫
@Guess Who oh, I misunderstood, then. I’m sorry. I hope you don’t get pseudomonas! I had in it my eye, once, my vision has never been the same. Now I’m trying to think back to whether I was using eye drops back then!!
@Nadine Domg wow that’s so crazy. I never ever heard of it. So scary
If it goes into the bloodstream it can cause death pretty quickly.
I used these eye drops before work in the mornings and noticed my eyes have been very itchy but I thought it was dryness also it made me see everything blurry so I stopped using them
If it’s sold from Amazon, then how do they not know exactly where each product was shipped? And where were the drops made?
Made in India
Most medication is ment to make us sick and die.
Why the f do we have anything made in India or China. F. Stop
Bruh I hate this country so much the fact that we, the consumer are always being exposed to stuff like this and there still aren’t any regulations smh
How is it they have a litter for cats that makes color for any problems in the urine and cannot test these products before they hit the shelf or being recommended by a doctor.
My brother in law was given told by a doctor to use this product. Why is it the departments that are the peoples watchdog not getting it done before it is put on the shelf?
Wouldn’t surprise me that some of the chemicals to make this stuff originated in china.
Man I gotta go to work 😭
Artificial tear eye drops kills 1 and damages 2 people’s eyes.
Now they can cause real tears.
Wow this is amazing! Being sarcastic there. I got a pretty bad antibiotic resistant infection about 6 years ago and almost lost the lower half of my leg. I have used these drops and will be calling my doctor in the morning want to be safe and get checked out just in case. Since I had the pretty life threatening infection 6 years ago and have a weakened immune system and have a genetic condition that cause dysfunction of the cilia and mucus in the body. I used the EzriClear eye drop for about 3-4 months so yeah definitiely go ing to get checked out by a doctor in the morning.
Also just to mention I already have blurred vision. I am considered legally blind well low vision because I still have remaining vision but it is fair to poor scale so to speak; had cataract surgeries 4-5 years ago. So it is more difficult for me to judge myself whether my vision has gotten worse since the last time I went to my eye doctor about a year ago
Super disturbing. It seems like companies these days just can’t keep their products sanitary.
How about lumify?
This is totally off the subject of eye drops but if you look on the freedom of information page and VAERS. You will see lots of reports of eye problems. Such as eczema of eye lids, conjunctivitis, along with tons of autoimmune diseases caused by Covid 19 and the vaccines.
OMG! I had this king of infection in my eye a few years ago. I started with 2 different antibiotic eye drops, every 30 minutes while awake (so every 15 minutes). I got scared when the Ophthalmologist said that they were more concerned with saving my eye than saving my vision. Definitely would not recommend.
Just got lasik a week ago had me running to the bottles I was using lol
If effected …. be the witness we all need.