Crap in your eye ....

[twistedhicap]

If you work with metal it is a must to try and make sure that if your likely to have a mri scan to tell them they X-ray your head to check for metal in the eyes otherwise the magnet will remove it not pleasant I'm told also I always tell people that you only get one pair of eyes ! Hands and such we are lucky to have good prosthetic limbs now which work well but bionic eyes are a long long time away I bet !

[eldon]

Yep been there a few times with metal and grinding sparks. Once had to be fastened into a head frame, anaesthetic drops put in and then digging the top layer off the eyeball to release the metal inside that had been grown over.... not nice.

 

The docs said that the eyes are the fastest growing part of your body so as in my case a weekend was quite a long time in growing/repairing terms hence the piece that went in Friday was covered over by Monday.

 

Any doubts guys get straight to a and e asap.

All the best stubby.

[eldon]

Yes as twistedhicap said an MRI scan in future presents problems. Ex wife had one and I was told that I wouldn't be allowed in the room as it could cause blindness if there were any traces left.

 

In answer to a previous post about metal rusting; stainless doesn't (if its the right grade) so has to be the worst of both wood and metal worlds.

[twistedhicap]

I have spent last three years working with 300 series stainless ! I'm doomed lol

[skyhuck]

I think its normally grit from the grinding disc you get in your eye rather than the metal, plus it causes such irritation that I don't think you could leave metal in your eye.

 

I has an MRI last year, no problems with my eyes.

[twistedhicap]

Trust me I have had metal and grit rust dust chips from die grinders etc safety glasses always I'd still be wary of an Mri after 20 plus years of workshop life lol

[Mark Baker ARB and Medic]

Dealt with quite a few scratched lenses and a couple of embedded objects over the years best advice is if you get any foreign object in or around the eye don't rub it it just ends up etching your cornea as it's almost a soft gel like

Coating that scratches incredibly easily best soloution I've found and that I regularly

Carry in my kit is a can of sterile saline aerosol this is pressurised but not so

Much as to cause any harm and it delivers a fine mist into the eye this washes the object to the edge where it can be wiped or completely

Flushed out. Eye baths are out now as they have a tendency to introduce more dust and grit than they are removing, plus they are no longer permitted in first aid kits, probably for this very reason.

If it's serious then it's A+E and usually anaesthetic and a 24 hour eye patch with removal of the object, if it's just scratched chlorophenicol drops will heal

It over time. You Can get iripods (one shot saline pods or the saline spray from s.p. services I hope it clears up quickly.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Had what your describing Stubby had scratched my eye ball not nice. The day after I was really struggling it wS bright and windy working on a colum and beam building fixing beams long way up. Told the gaffer I could not see to walk the steel to get chains off.

After a few hours it became un bearable jumped in a picker to come down and ended up landing the basket on the gaffers super duper laser level argument insued and it didn't end well for him he picked his van keys up from the local A&E with me getting the train home .

It's one of those conditions unless you have suffered it you don't realise how bad it is.

Hope it's better soon

[Gardenmac]

Gardenmac have you got a link for those goggles mate

 

Boaty,

Sorry for the delay, my lad brought mine back from America. You can get them on Amazon for £20. http://www.amazon.co.uk/ArcOne-G-FLY-A1101-The-Safety-Goggles, make sure it's the A1101 as the others are the welding version and as such are really dark.

[farmer rod]

Yes as twistedhicap said an MRI scan in future presents problems. Ex wife had one and I was told that I wouldn't be allowed in the room as it could cause blindness if there were any traces left.

 

In answer to a previous post about metal rusting; stainless doesn't (if its the right grade) so has to be the worst of both wood and metal worlds.

 

at least the stainless is non magnetic, so no probs with the MRI