What parents need to know about sudden corneal penetration injuries in children

  Children are active and have a poor sense of self-protection and are prone to eye trauma, and the consequences of these injuries are more serious. Corneal perforation is a common emergency ocular trauma in children, and prompt debridement and repair surgery is usually recommended within 24 hours of injury. The longer the preoperative delay, the more serious the complications and the worse the prognosis. So if you have the misfortune of having a bear child, or your child is injured by a bear, you should have the ability to properly treat your child’s injury before arriving at the hospital. Once your child’s eye, especially the cornea, is injured, be sure to protect the wound and get to the hospital right away. Do not wait until the cornea becomes inflamed and red before going to a regular ophthalmologist for treatment, do not take eye drops and antibiotics indiscriminately, as the doctor will need to send the wound secretions for bacterial culture after the child is sent to the hospital, and your carelessness may prevent the bacteria from being cultured. In addition, this kind of corneal perforation surgery is required to give the child general anesthesia, people with common sense know it general anesthesia is to fasting, do not give the child to comfort him a strong food, which is not conducive to the doctor for timely surgery.  Foreign literature has reported that severe wound infection can directly affect the post-operative inflammatory response, making the incidence of complications such as late glaucoma, corneal scarring irregular astigmatism, refractory amblyopia, and low vision higher than timely treatment of perforated injuries. Therefore, not only parents of bear children should understand these common sense, but also general medical personnel should be familiar with the characteristics of pediatric ocular trauma rescue and treatment to actively send them to the hospital to buy time and better improve the quality of treatment.