Dealing With Eye Scratches
Posted by Danielwalters.com on 23rd Mar 2018
Be aware of your surroundings
The next time you have a safety meeting at work and they mention eye protection, listen up! You could use what you learn outside of work. A whopping 45 percent of eye injuries happen at home. This includes sun damage. The most common form of eye damage is actually, a simple corneal scratch. It is simple in how it can happen, but if not recognized, it can complicate quickly. The first step in health treatment plan is prevention. Wear protective eyewear when working with chemicals or doing yard work. Be careful not to touch your eyes when dusting.
Help! My eye is burning!
If you were doing something specific and the feeling came on suddenly, stop doing what you were doing. Don't touch anything and continuously blink until you can get to a sink. Wash your hands and flush your eye. If you have something in your eye, you need to get it out. Common sense dictates whether this warrants a visit to the eye doctor. It depends on what you were doing or if it gets worse. When in doubt, go to the eye doctor! An infection could develop and, left untreated, could lead to vision loss.
Sunglasses
Protective sunglasses can not only help give your eyes a chance to heal, they can also prevent injury. If you are wearing everyday glasses indoors, that limits what could get into your eyes. The same goes with sunglasses. They also have the cool bonus of protecting your eyes from the sun. This helps to prevent a multitude of problems, but in this case, they can keep potentially harmful things out of your eyes. You get one pair of eyes, so take care of them.
Keep your hands occupied
Touching your eyes is the last thing you want to do. This goes for before eye scratches too. Chances are, you touching your eyes is part of why it is scratched in the first place. If you are healing from a scratched eye, it will itch. Take up knitting or read a hard copy book so you aren't looking at a screen. Let your eyes breathe. The more you touch them, the worse it will get. Your mom told you that with chicken pox and the same rules apply. Scratching only makes things worse.