What to do if your eyes are bruised? Different situations have different treatments

Bruising of the eyes is usually caused by trauma. If it is a chemical burn, the eyes should be rinsed immediately with saline or tap water. If the face is hit by a blunt force trauma, which only causes swelling of the soft tissue around the eye socket without a break, do not massage or apply hot compresses to avoid aggravating the subcutaneous hematoma. Instead, immediately apply local cold compresses with ice packs or cool towels to reduce swelling and relieve pain.

1. If it is a chemical burn, rinse your eyes immediately with saline or tap water, and use your fingers to pry open your eyelids, the wider the better. You can even put your head under the faucet and let the water rinse directly into your eyes for at least 15 minutes, moving your eyeballs as much as possible. What to do if there is blood bruise on the eye due to trauma? Rinse and send to hospital for treatment immediately.

2. If the face is hit by a blunt force, which only causes swelling of the soft tissue around the eye socket without any break, do not massage or apply hot compress to avoid aggravating the subcutaneous hematoma. What should you do if there is bruising due to eye injury? Instead, you should immediately apply local cold compress with ice packs or cool towels to reduce swelling and relieve pain. After 24 hours, you can switch to hot compress to promote the absorption of local blood stasis.

3. For those who only have ruptured skin on the outside of the eye but no damage to the eyeball, care must be taken to keep the wound clean. Do not cover the wound with dirty hands or unclean cloth to avoid infection that may affect the eyeball and affect vision. After bandaging with clean dressing, the patient should be sent to the hospital's ophthalmology department as soon as possible for debridement and suture.

4. After the eyeball is hit or abraded by a blunt force, the victim may experience symptoms such as a foreign body sensation in the eye, photophobia, and tearing. If the cornea is damaged, severe pain may also occur. What should you do if your eyes are injured and bruised? At this time, if you have eye drops, you can use them to prevent infection. Then cover your eyes with clean gauze or handkerchief and go to the hospital for treatment.

5. If a child is pierced in the eye by a pencil or other sharp object, causing a penetrating eye injury, the foreign object should not be forcibly pulled out in principle. Some wounds will have a mass of black iris or gelatinous vitreous and other eye contents emerging. At this time, you must not push them back into the eye to avoid infection. Just let the child lie down, cover the injured eye with a clean dressing, and then rush to the hospital for emergency treatment. Discourage the child from crying during the ride and minimize bumps to reduce the outflow of eye contents.