Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA, is a Senior Contributor for Forbes who has been covering health, medicine, wellness and science for Forbes since 2105.
eye drops advertised as eye color-changing solutions.” The warning emphasized, “These products are not FDA approved, have not been tested for safety or efficacy, and could potentially damage the eyes.” If you’ve been may eying those supposed eye color-changing eye drops being pushed on TikTok and other social media platforms, beware. Such drops may not work to change your eye color. Or worse yet, putting something not approved by the U.S.
The color of your iris depends on how much melanin is there and how it’s spread throughout the iris. Since melanin is a brown pigment, those with brown eyes have more melanin than those with blue or green eyes. In fact, most everyone is born with blue eyes. Over the first three years of life, those blue eyes may turn brown as more melanin accumulates in the iris.
Let’s say that these drops were able to destroy melanin in some way. Well, pigment ain’t in your eye just for show and to get other people to say, “You have lovely eyes.” Melanin can help protect your eye cells against light. Plus, other parts of your eye like your retina can use melanin to function properly. Eye drops typically won’t stay in only one part of eye even if you tell to do so. Indiscriminately destroying melanin in different parts of your eye could in turn lead to eye damage.
This is yet another example of why you shouldn’t be relying on random social media posts alone for medical advice. Platforms like TikTok and Instagram can have so much quackery that they can seem like freaking ponds of misinformation and disinformation.
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