Any eye pain should be addressed as soon as possible. We treat all of the following:
- Corneal Foreign Body: If you feel you have gotten something into your eye, such as a piece of metal, wood, or debris from a ceiling tile. It is especially important that you come in if you have been hammering or grinding.
- A Corneal Abrasion is a scratch on the front part of an eye. It can be from something as simple as a child's fingernail, a piece of paper, or burning cigarette ember. needs immediate care.
- Sudden blurred vision or loss of vision
- Sudden floaters or flashes of light may be a sign of a Retinal Detachment
- Lids crusted together when waking up can be a sign of conjunctivitis.
- Sudden redness on the white part of the eye may be a hemorrhage.
- Seeing red may indicate there is blood in the eye.
- Eye allergies may come on quickly and may cause the eye to become red or feel like something is in the eye.
- Being hit in the eye and having a "black eye".
- Corneal Ulcer can be caused by contact lens over where or other reasons.
- Sudden and intense eye pain can be caused by a virus such as herpes.
- For some people, losing a contact lens or losing a screw in their eyeglasses may seem to be an emergency. We will try to help you with that as well although those can usually wait until normal office hours.
