Dilatation of Pupils

Pupils need to be dilated to facilitate observation of the inside of the eyes. Medication (in the form of eye drops) is often needed to make the pupils dilate.

How would you know your pupils are dilated (besides being told by the doctor)?
- Our vision will be blurred. The blur vision may last for approximately 4 hours.
- We can’t read the time on our watch.
- We can’t read the smses from our handphone.
- When someone call to our mobile phone, the caller-id feature is useless. We can’t see the display clearly.
- We can’t read the instructions/labels on any items (collected at the pharmacy).
- We can’t interpret the printed receipt.
- We can’t see the addressee printed on an envelope.
- We can't read newspaper or magazines.
- We can’t surf the internet.
- We can forget about managing or processing any emails.
- We can only look at far-far-big-big things (although they are still a bit blurry).

I “just” had a first-hand-experience of all the above. If not, I would have posted this entry much earlier.

Erps.. And I drove while I was still under the spell of dilated pupils. Haiz.. I hope I didn’t pose a road-hazard just now. You tell me. How useful when we receive the following tips

only upon our arrival at the clinic itself?

I just got to go slow and steady. Mm…

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I also realised that either
- my pupils are kind of small by the medical standard, or
- my pupils are quite resistant to the medication used to assist in the dilatation of the pupils.

While most (in fact all the others I observed) need one application of that eye drop to have their pupils dilated enough, I required 3 applications. Thick skin, perhaps. :o)