Eye Emergencies

Eye Emergency and Red Eye

Eye conditions that MERIT AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL VISIT

• Trauma
• Blunt injuries to the eye or eyelid
• Cuts and Scratches
• Scratch from plant matter
• Foreign body in the eye (no matter how small)
• Burns
• Chemical exposure/ burns
• UV burns
• Light sensitivity after contact lens wear

Eye Conditions That Merit a Medical Visit

• Styes and chalazions
• Yellow/white bumps around eyelids
• Ulceration around eyelids
• Contact-lens related infections
• Eyelashes turning into the eye
• Pain/redness after contact lens wear

Common signs and symptoms

• Pain/ discomfort
• Light sensitivity
• Red eyes or blood shot eyes
• Red or swollen eyelids with and without fever
• Discharge (clear or colored)
• Watery eyes
• Itchy eyes
• Stinging or burning eyes
• sensation of something in the eye(s)
• decreased vision
• double vision (especially recent)
• one eye not being able to move like the other
• unequal pupil sizes
• droopy eyelid (especially recent)
• Bleeding from or around the eye
• Bulging eye
• flashes of light
• Floaters
• Nausea/headache with eye pain
• Tingling around eye/scalp

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, please come in for a medical visit.