How to deal with swollen eyes from head injuries

Head injury with eye swelling, according to the patient’s degree of injury, can take different treatment methods. First, if the patient’s head injury is relatively light, the degree of eye swelling is not heavy and does not affect the patient’s vision. At this time can be given a simple local sterilization bandage to stop bleeding, eye swelling can be ice for 24 hours to reduce the local tissue exudate. 24 hours later, the use of hot amyl pack external, can be faster to relieve pain and eye swelling. Second, if the head injury is heavy, accompanied by skull fracture, while the eye swelling is caused by intraorbital hemorrhage and increased intraocular pressure. In this case, the patient needs to perform cranial repair under general anesthesia, remove the intraorbital hematoma, and reduce the intraocular pressure. Supportive treatment such as anti-infection, dehydration, hemostasis, and rehydration is also given, and the patient needs to be transferred to ICU for further treatment after surgery if necessary.