Advice, getting stuff out your eyes

[beenthere]

Glad you are okay. This story was reminding me of when I had a spec of rust (working under the car) get in my eye, and I couldn't see anything. Finally went to the Dr. and he picked out the rust. It had embedded itself, and 20 years later, when I get my eyes checked, they comment on the scar that they can see. No vision impairment, but I consider myself lucky.

Friend of mine learned oneday, when one eye suddenly went blind, that he had a small metal filing floating in his eye. He remembered getting it in there some many years prior. The thing these days is the MRI exams, when they ask if you have any metal in you. Such a spec of metal in the eye can be pulled right out during the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) procedure.

Which also reminds me of a couple months ago, I was drilling steel, and at the moment I remembered to put the safety goggles on, I felt something lightly hit my eye. I located a magnet, and held it to my eye, and felt the metal chip come out and could see it on the magnet. Felt lucky.

 

[GerardC]

Glad to hear everything is OK.
I once poked my eye on a branch from the hedges by my moms garbage cans as I bent over to pick something up. I can't remember how long it was before I saw the doctor (a couple of days maybe) and he found that I had a scratch/cut on my eyelid. Every time I would blink, it would rub and irritate my eye making it feel like there was something in there when actually there was nothing. He prescribed some type of eye drops that would put a little film between my eye and the lid to help with the irritation and to help heal the scratch/cut faster. Just thought I would post this for future reference.

 

[btolle]

If you get something in your eye, rub the OTHER eye. That will force both eyes to water and maybe flush it out.

If you rub the eye that the object is in you stand a chance of doing further damage.

Plan B: Try flushing with clean water, that will sometimes dislodge it.

Plan C: FInd a friend (with clean hands) and have him/her look. If friend will hold their finger up and move it side-to-side and upan down while you follow their finger with your eyes you will move your eyeball and they may be able to see if there is anything in it.

If in doubt, see the Eye Doc.

Off Topic:

Welder and brand new helper working on a job all day. Each time Welder prepares to strike an arc he issues warning "Watch it!".

About 4 PM Welder prepares to strike an arc and says "Watch it!". Helper replies, "Mister you will have to watch it yourself this time, I can't see it any more".

Bill Tolle

 

[AlanB]

My advice is to see an Optomotrist immediately. (but now you have it fixed which is good)

My story, 7 pm working on a belt grinder dressing some steel, safety rated glasses with side shields on and feel a speck fly up into my eye..

Shower / eye wash / artificial tears, natural tears,,, try and sleep, 2 am going insane and go to the ER wanting to rip my eye out, doc gets out the magnifier and the dye "nothing there" they rinse and I feel it come out. Glad nothing was there, just felt it come out...... Dr. tells me and my wife that it was all in my head. Thanks.....

3 weeks later at my optomotrist getting a laser eye exam (worked around live lasers a lot) and he says, did you get a piece of metal in your eye a couple of weeks ago? I reply I thought I did, but the ER doc said no, He then takes a picture of my eye for me to show to the wife to show the rust stain it left on my eyeball. He said call him anytime I have an eye problem, that I went to a car mechanic when I needed a fuel injection specialist.

 

[riptides]

Well I have only one eye. The other is plastic. Having suffered a mishap with a tractor no less. So -

Go to a doctor, an ophthalmologist is preferred. They are trained to do surgery, if one suspects something in the eye.

Do wear saftey glasses, HIGH quality.

Blind is not closing your eyes. Blind is the darkest dark you can imagine.

Get your eyes checked yearly too.

'nuff said. Hope your eye gets better.

Oh... eyes have a nasty natural phenomenon of possibly getting worse, when damage to one eye occurs.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[frank_f15]

GO to the Dr. Many years ago i had a cinder blow into my eye, as luck would have it was at the time working at a hospital on the 3rd shift went to emergency Rm and they could not get it out, in the AM when the eye Dr. came in HE got it out in 10 seconds, but the eye was scratched up pretty bad, so i had to use Meds and wear a patch for a few days. Don't mess around!!! Get it checked.

 

[Jagmandave]

My wife has this wonderful eye condition called recurring corneal abrasion. Years ago while working in her flower garden, she bent over and the "killer azalea" scratched her cornea. Now she has to put some goo in her eyes every night, because if they dry out while she sleeps and she opens her eye, it tears her cornea again, in the same place, which of course causes excrutiating pain and a trip to the emergency eye doc. Then the only solution seems to be to wear a clear contact lens for a few days to two weeks and take some antibiotics, the eye heals pretty quickly, at least until the next time it does it....................
Moral of the story, be careful with your eyes, and go see the doc immediately if you get something in it or hurt it in any way.