What should I do to protect my eyes during the Chinese New Year?

  The Chinese traditional festival of Spring Festival is approaching, and during the Spring Festival, in order to increase the festive and lively atmosphere, people inevitably set off fireworks. While celebrating, we must not forget its hazards, because at this time of the year, there is a sharp increase in the number of patients injured by fireworks, of which eye trauma accounts for the largest proportion of consequences and is the most serious.  Most eye injuries caused by fireworks have a poor prognosis and can lead to varying degrees of vision loss, and in some cases, even blindness. Ophthalmologists would like to remind everyone to protect our eyes while setting off fireworks, and to take precautions and safety first. Once an accident occurs that leads to eye trauma, we should not panic and some improper treatment measures can often lead to more serious consequences. Therefore, ophthalmologists give you a few pieces of advice: 1, try not to burn or less fireworks, try to stay away from the fireworks being burned.  2, if you want to set off fireworks, please buy some regular manufacturers of products, some black workshop production of fireworks should not buy, and do not set off, its more dangerous.  3, bring protective glasses when setting off fireworks; when viewing fireworks, keep a safe distance of more than 5 meters.  4, if you find fireworks debris, dust splashed into the eye, and the splash into the force is not large, there is no bleeding, then do not rub your eyes with your hands, you can use eye drops or saline rinse nearby, promptly to the regular health institutions for treatment.  5, if the force of trauma is very large, and serious loss of vision, and there is bleeding, indicating that the injury is very serious, it is very likely that the eye rupture. Do not panic at this point, use clean gauze, cotton swabs to gently wipe off the dirt around the eye; avoid turning the eye to reduce intraorbital venous pressure to prevent rebleeding; then send to a professional eye hospital as soon as possible, because the earlier the treatment of ocular trauma, the better, preferably within 24 hours of rescue, in favor of vision recovery 6, and finally again: once the eye injury, do not use your hands to cover the pressure on the eye. Fireworks debris, dust are carrying germs, if you use your hand to press the eye, you will bring these germs into the eye, aggravating the pollution of the eye. And, at this time, the eye is already very fragile, if you press the eye, it will compress the eye, speeding up the rupture of the eye, making the eye wound larger, causing intraocular hemorrhage, corneal epithelial detachment and other adverse consequences. It is important to be sent to a professional ophthalmology institution for timely treatment to buy time to save vision.