Eye Injuries - What to Do and How to Deal With Them

If you have an eye injury, it is needless to sayit's about eyes, you should not try to be brave,
that you need to be very careful and seek forbe patient and ask for help right away. Even if
medical care right away. In most cases, rubbing oryou try to remove a foreign object, under no
touching your eyes could prove really harmful,circumstances use some other object to do so. A
since you might not know the exact cause orhurt eye can cause sudden moves, so you don't
severity of the injury.need a second injury. Try to lift the eyelids and
Eye injuries can occur everywhere we are;pour some cold water. If that hurts stop right
whether at home or outside, doing sports or justaway and wait for medical experts to show up.
strolling enjoyably, something bad can alwaysDo not try to remove anything that seems to be
happen even without our fault. Most people whosomehow stuck in your pupil. If you can, place
suffer some kind of eye trauma have eithersoft gauze over it and do not open it or move
some foreign body in their eye or havethe eye. Finding a doctor fast is mandatory in this
experienced some injury caused by chemicals.case. Splinter or glass objects that are impaled in
In both cases you should not attempt to removethe eye should also not be removed by you,
the object by yourself, unless you know how tobecause you might provoke an irreversible injury.
do it, or the object is no longer attached to anyChemicals can also cause serious eye damage and
part of your eye ball. If it is not floating in theinjuries. Although you need to see a doctor right
white part or if it's not hidden under the eyelid doaway, try to flush your eye with lots of water
not try to remove it; chances are that you willopening your eyes as much as possible.
cause a bigger problem than the original one. Since