Over the years i have also found that simply telling patients that fluorescein sodium is a dye that ophthalmologists have been using since the early 1880s and injecting since the 1950s is enough to keep them fairly calm. -sandor On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM, <blutmancra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Because it always that way since I started in this field. And the patients > it's a vegetable dye due to keep them calm during the test. If you say the > other it might make them nervous and you might get poor results. > > Brian > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > ________________________________