In this article we want to draw parents on such a problem as eye injury. Children's prank and negligence often leads to eye bruises. What to do with the injury of the child's eye, how to render first aid?
Content
- Injury like a child's eye injury
- Than dangerous eye injury and «Children's» The carelessness of the parents?
- First actions during the injury of the child's eye
- Attention!
Child — Unpredictable creature. A second ago, he calmly played in the sandbox, and now puffed, climbs on a high slide. Just hugged a neighbor boy, and a fight broke out after a moment. A consequence of high activity in children often become bruises and bruises. The fact that all parents who are shot down knees and elbows know how to treat the wound and impose a bandage during bleeding, but less aware appeared in this question as eye injury. Children's prank and negligence often lead to eye bruises and know what to do in such a situation — Responsibility of parents.
Injury like a child's eye injury
The mechanism of obtaining such a injury as the injury is understood to everyone. In the case of the eye, this is most often a punch, a ball, a collision with an obstacle or a fall on protruding items. Options for obtaining eye injury in a child set — The result is one. There is a sharp pain and rubbing in the eye, eyelids swell, the eye slit is narrowed, there is plenty of tearing and fear of light. Soon the skin around the eye acquires the crimson-blue color, in the people such a picture called «Fingal under the eye», And in scientific — hematoma.
The severity of the symptoms of the eye injury depends on which tissues were damaged. The doctor can state the corneal contusion, the contusion of the vascular eye, lens or retina. The deeper the fabrics of the eye, the greatest of its consequences, with a strong eye injury should not be joking, it can lead to blindness and loss of the organ of sight.
Than dangerous eye injury and «Children's» The carelessness of the parents?
According to statistical data, eye injury is in the list of the main reasons for reducing visual acuity and monocular blindness, that is, the full loss of view on one eye. Regardless of how the injured eye looks like, the child must be examined by an ophthalmologist. Sometimes external signs do not talk about the degree of damage to the tissue of the organ.
The consequences of the bruise may not be felt for some time if the injury, of course, was not accompanied by penetrating injury and breaking the eyeball. Usually remote «results» children's pranks are becoming tangible when the child begins to lose sight and the cause — Hemorrhage in the eye.
If you disregard eye injury and do not take measures to prevent the formation of scar tissue, the retina will start peeling, it threatens full loss of sight.
First actions during the injury of the child's eye
The child with an injury should be immediately given first aid. When saving the integrity of the eyeball, the action should be as follows.
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Eliminate the friction of the eye of the eyeball. - If a foreign body has fallen into the eye, for example, sand or sorink it needs to be removed with a cotton swab or a corner of a clean napkin. The eye should be rinsed with clean running water and drip albucid to it (sodium sulphacyl) to prevent the development of infection.
- Injured eye need peace, so you should apply a soft, dry, sterile bandage.
- The movements of the eye block must be excluded, as well as turns of the head, slopes and other movements, which will avoid the progression of retinal detachment during its damage.
- To reduce edema and prevent the formation of a large hematoma, it is necessary to attach an ice bubble to the injured eye. Cold compress can be kept no more than 10 minutes, and then take a break.
The next point in the list of first-aid activities in the eye injury should be the delivery of the victim in the traumatological or ophthalmological department of the hospital.
Attention!
- About the serious injury of the eye requiring ambulance, testify the head and eye pain on the side of the injury, amplifying when driving, a sudden decrease or loss of vision, the appearance of dark spots, rainbow circles and rays in sight.
- If the eye injury is accompanied by a violation of the integrity of the eyeball, a sterile dry bandage should be applied to the eye and immediately deliver the victim to the trauma.
- If the eye injury is combined with a foreign body, which is fixed in the eye tissues, for example, a shard glass or metal chips should not be attempted to independently remove it from the eye, this is a work of specialists.
- Do not remove the foreign body lying on the cornea, covering the pupil and iris.
