Emergency remedy for welding eye injury

After welding eye injury, there is generally no emergency prescription, and it is not recommended to blindly self-medicate, need to be correctly diagnosed and scientific treatment. The following methods can be used to shorten the course of the disease: 1, cold compresses: after welding eye injury can be cold compresses to relieve the patient’s eye pain sensation, avoiding hot compresses. Through cold compresses, the patient’s local nerve pain can be paralyzed; 2, medication: welding can lead to the photochemical effects of ultraviolet light on corneal tissue, causing protein coagulation and denaturation, corneal epithelial necrosis and detachment, resulting in strong foreign body sensation, pain, conjunctival congestion, corneal epithelial dot peeling and other symptoms. You can consult a doctor as soon as possible and use medications that promote corneal tissue recovery as prescribed by the doctor, such as sodium vitrate eye drops, recombinant bovine basic fibroblast growth factor eye drops and calf serum deproteinized ophthalmic gel, which can effectively relieve the patient’s discomfort and accelerate the repair of corneal tissue. Antibiotic eye drops and eye ointments can also be used to prevent infection as appropriate, such as levofloxacin eye drops and aureomycin eye ointment. Because ultraviolet light can lead to necrotic shedding of corneal epithelium, there is a potential risk of bacterial infection, so the use of anti-infective drugs can prevent the occurrence of infection and help shorten the course of electrophthalmia; 3. Use of anesthetics: For severe pain patients really can not stand, you can use local anesthetics in the eye under the guidance of a doctor to temporarily relieve pain, but anesthetics should not be used often, it may It may slow down the healing of the cornea; 4, rest with eyes closed: wear sunglasses and rest with eyes closed to reduce the stimulation of light and eye rotation friction, which can make the eyes feel comfortable and help recovery. Through the above methods, patients can generally alleviate their symptoms after 6-8 hours, and can recover in about 3 days. As long as they are treated promptly and correctly, the prognosis is generally good, and there will be almost no recurrence as long as they follow up with good protection.