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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Foreign bodies in the eye, and how to deal with it.

 eye injuries




Primary care for the sound eye injuries are very important, because they relieve pain, and also help prevent complications that can lead to vision loss, you should refrain completely from examination of the affected eye. Eyelids may be swollen or ruptured from traumatic injuries or peremptory, and usually becomes a ruby ​​red color, either the cornea, it is easy to wound exotic objects.
Foreign body in the eye (speck):
Exotic objects have sizes and types, and usually located under the upper eyelid or surface of the cornea, and eye irritation, and make the tears flowed in abundance, and wash the eye and may expel the foreign body.



Method Ambulance:
- Use the solution as boric lotion to the eye, or Sodam chloride solution to wash the eye, and if it does not exist open the eye under running water faucet to wash them gently.

 - Should not be trying to remove a foreign body on the cornea, as well as exotic objects that penetrate the body of the eyeball, but this must be by a specialist doctor.
- Covered by the suppression of the eye. Away from the surface of the eye and so prevents the penetration inside the UFO over the eyeball.

- It also should cover both eyes, even if the injury was in one eye, because the eyes are moving together, causing pain, and cover both eyes to prevent their movement and thus relieve pain in the affected eye.
- Remember that a person covered eyes can not vision, and may jittery fear, especially children, so you must make clear to the child or person with reason to cover the eye, so as not to resist and move more, turning from an injury of the eye. And should also help in the movement, and to understand the eye cover is temporary, until it is examined in the hospital.
Light injury to the eye:


UV light is absorbed by cells of the cornea surface, and cause separation from the deep cells, and leads to a feeling of pain and extreme sensitivity to light, and foreign body sensation in the eye.
This only happens to injury in welders, who do not use special glasses to protect eyes from UV light, and in these cases should be evacuated to the hospital immediately.