What to do if you fall and it swells up near your eye

After a fall, swollen near the eye, you need to go to the hospital in time for examination to see whether it is a local soft tissue contusion, or a combination of intraorbital hematoma, orbital wall fracture, ocular contusion and other causes, and then give the general symptomatic treatment, medication or surgery. If the eyes are bruised after a fall, ocular edema may occur, and it is difficult for the patient to judge the severity of the injury by himself, so he needs to go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital as soon as possible, so that the doctor can find out the severity of the disease by doing slit lamp microscopy, fundoscopy, orbital CT examination, and ophthalmology ultrasonography. General symptomatic treatment: simple local soft tissue contusion is generally not harmful, early local swelling can be used to promote edema using ice packs or ice towels cold compresses. Later, hot compresses can be applied. Drug treatment: If the swelling is serious, you can use mannitol and other drugs to reduce swelling, if accompanied by pain, you can give diclofenac sodium and other drugs to relieve pain, if accompanied by open injuries, you should also be injected with tetanus antitoxin, as well as penicillin and other antibiotics to fight infection. Surgical treatment: If there is a large wound, it needs to be cleaned up and sutured, and if CT and other tests find a fracture of the orbital wall, it needs to be surgically repaired if necessary. After a fall, swelling near the eye is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor to improve the examination and targeted treatment.