How to help corneal abrasion?

Corneal abrasion is a painful and uncomfortable condition that can occur due to various reasons like wearing contact lenses for long hours, getting dust particles in the eye, or an infection. In this article, we will discuss how you can help ease your corneal abrasion with some effective tips.

What is Corneal Abrasion?

Before diving into the solutions to corneal abrasions troubles, it’s crucial to understand what it means. A cornea is a clear layer on top of your eyes that helps refract light as if it were working flawlessly after six cups of coffee – which let me tell you is my daily minimum. When someone experiences abrasions, these are basically scratches across their eyeball’s surface layer- OUCH!

Symptoms

It would be best if you looked out for signs indicating any damage caused by corneal abrasion since they cause severe discomfort.

  • Eye pain
  • Light sensitivity
  • Tearing up
  • Redness
  • Headaches

Treatment

There are many ways one could treat their ocular issues before rushing off somewhere else! These tricks could come handy in situations where help isn’t available immediately/handy.

Cleaning Your Eye

No matter how bad the ‘scratch’ looks (or feels), don’t try rubbing away at whatever may be causing the trouble because trust me when I say, ‘it won’t rub out anyway!‘.
Get some sterile saline solution and flush your eye thoroughly until debris cluster unravel within them alone.
Flushing mechanisms such as water faucet should never use since tap water carries bacteria that might worsen the problem instead of helping.

Taking Over-the-counter Pain Medicine

To please those who require more relief than just saline flushing:
Many over-the-counter medicines made explicitly for relieving certain ocular irritations such as ibroprophen etc., work wonders in getting into the bloodstream and helping people feel better quickly.

Patching/ Covering Your Eye

The logic behind patching one’s eye is that it has to do with resting your vision. Brownie points if you’re able to get an eye patch similar to pirates! However, if finding yourself without a fun patch on screen:
Get band-aid; covering the hurt eye will provide additional protection against any harm from entering as well as reducing headaches stemming from light sensitivity provided by injury.

Prevention

As ‘prevention’ goes, I suggest always keeping some handy tips in mind while touring around so that such accidents may avoid altogether!

Always Protect Your Eyes

Protective eyewear ensures maintaining good health along with preventing unwanted injuries.
However, aside from having protective glasses lying around – a person also must be aware of their surroundings (no kidding)! Ranging backward before opening doors or cautiously utilising all equipment capable of creating dust clouds are probably my regular display moves which indirectly help protect my eyesight.

How To Handle Contact Lenses?

We know many love flaunting their fancy lenses and seeing the world differently,
but to avoid damage caused due prolonged lens wear:

  • Wear them for less time than prescribed
  • Clean them every day
  • Change them out regularly

These simple practices keep those sexy peeps, pretty memories safe and sound.

Wash Hands Before Touching Your Face/Eyes

If wearing contacts or not: washing hands should always be mandatory upon returning home anywhere possible should contact occur. That way avoids dirt particles settling under nails inadvertently making things worse if they happen across delicate eye regions.

Conclusion

Corneal abrasions might seem scary; however at times some TLC usually does most of the healing process!
By following these essential steps: cleaning properly using saline solution instead of tap water. Over-the-counter pain medicine for fast relief where necessary plus attempting comfort measures like patches/bandages, corneal abrasion shouldn’t put much of a damper to anyone’s day.
For preventing scratches from occurring in the first place: one must always protect themselves no matter where they are! Wear protective eyewear when using equipment that creates dust or debris. Take care when handling lenses because prevention is always better than cure.
The end result? 20/20 vision just like hustling at work before time to pick up the kiddo has its own story to tell!

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