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Mishaps at two Swedish hospitals involving medical glue resulted in children having their eyes glued shut, Swedish officials said. One of the toddlers had to undergo emergency surgery to correct the error, The Local reported Friday. A 22-month-old boy was taken to a hospital emergency room in Gothenburg after he fell and cut his forehead. After the attending physician treated the wound using a medical glue, some of it trickled down from the injury into the boy's eye, the parents said.

"When it was over and the doctor seemed 'satisfied,' we discovered that our son couldn't open his eye," the parents wrote in a report filed with Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. The boy had to be rushed to specialist clinic where he was sedated in order to have his eye surgically opened, the parents said. In a similar incident in northern Sweden, a 4-year-old had an eye glued shut while being treated for a cut above the eyebrow. Both cases involved a water-based medical glue known as LiquiBand that dissolves over time. Neither child suffered any long-term injuries from the eye-gluing incidents, The Local reported.