PRO/EDR> Chlorhexidine digluconate, blindness – Nigeria: pediatric misuse, alert

Other Human Disease — Nigeria
Early in September 2015, in Yobe State in Nigeria, a 3-week old baby was brought to a doctor with corneal ulceration leading to immediate blindness. The doctor took a detailed history, and the only possible cause that he could find was the use of what the mother described as “eye drops”, given to her as part of a pack to support the delivery. The doctor asked the mother to go home and bring in the “eye drops”.
The contents of this bottle is chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1 percent solution