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Nathan Tolley has spent four days in agony after a nurse accidentally glued his eye shut while treating a head wound.

The two-year-old boy had been playing at home when he tripped and banged his head, leaving an inch long gash on his brow.

Worried parents Matt Tolley and Amy Smith rushed him to the local Accident and Emergency ward to have the wound looked at. But while a nurse was trying to glue the skin over the cut, she accidentally spilt a drop into his right eye, just a couple of centimetres underneath.

The toddler howled in pain and the nurse frantically tried to get the eye open again but without success. Screaming Nathan was then transferred to a specialist eye hospital by ambulance but angry mum Amy, 28, said the paramedic drove them to another A&E unit by mistake.

By the time he got to see a specialist, his horrified parents were told that there was little that could be done because the eye lid was so tightly sealed. The little boy must now wait anything up to two weeks for the high strength medical glue to eventually release its grip, his parents claim.
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