Crap in your eye ....

[humpo48]

People please wear appropiate PPE. I've had various (non serious) eye injuries, foreign bodies, saw dust grit etc over the years and it is quite painful and stressful. I now tend to wear safety specs along with my chainsaw helmet visor when cross cutting, climbing, feeding a chipper etc. I wear safety specs if i'm out in the garage painting wood, doing DIY or tinkering with a saw etc. Ever tried to walk across the top of a previously topped conifer hedge/tight stand of trees with all those sharp small diameter twigs/branches/pegs ready to poke yer eye out shud you slip and fall off a foot hold ? It something i take seriously as my wife lost 85% of the vision in one of her eyes after a simple garden accident about 7 years ago. Basically it was a large shrub with long thorny spikes on it, it caught/snagged in my jumper as i pushed past it and released under tension and smacked her in the face. The eye specialists had their work cut out for them as they don't see many serious eye injuries due to increased H&S and wearing of facial PPE but after 4 bouts of surgery her eye is nigh on useless. Please be careful out there.

 

 

Sounds like very good advise to me, you only have one pair of eyes. Got to look after them.

[TTP]

I got an iron filing in my eye from sharpening! Wasn't good and hurt like bugger, eye was quartering for ages till I couldn't stand it and went to a & e to get it out and they gave me some drops. Can't remember the name now but I couldn't see for days!funny picture but I've learnt my lesson and always ware safety glasses now!

[humpo48]

Ouch!!!!

[Tree Lc]

I've had a minute shard of metal in my eye, went to the doctor who said that I had been smoking too much ! Never smoked in my life !! When I pointed this out, he asked if I had been standing next to people that smoked. Couldn't believe it. Even when I told him no, he said that it must be that.

Next day my eye was watering and swollen so I was driven down to Brighton eye hospital, within 3 mins, a doctor had looked at eye, said that there was something in it and taken it out. According to him, if I had not come down that day, I may have been in a bit of trouble with the eye due to infection.

Never trust the doctor if you are not satisfied !!! Always carry eye wash with you.

Tree LC

Horsham tree care

[Billhook]

When I was young and vain I wore the old hard type contact lenses which on a couple of occasions gave me the same symptoms as Stubby. I suppose that I had worn them for too long, they had scratched the cornea as well as straining the eye.

 

In the workshop I always thought that I was safe as I wore ordinary glasses when grinding metal however I soon learned that bits find their way past.

I think I was told in the contact lens period that you can put your finger on your eyeball without pain, but it is the eyelid where all the nerves are, but I may be corrected on that one.

Anyway you cannot feel the little missiles from a grinder when they hit your eye most of the time so I religiously wear goggles now.

 

After sawing certain woods such as yew and elm you need to take extra care but today I just cut up a hedge thick with elder and ivy and my eyes are hurting. There is a lot of fine dust with ivy but it could be that either elder or ivy sawdust have something toxic in them.

 

As for a relief I always carry a little Optrex dispenser but I like some of the other suggestions on this thread.

[Tom D]

Ironically I was reading this thread while in the waiting room at the eye clinic, I got rust in my eye on thursday, stupidly left it till friday night by which time I was in agony. Got it taken out at the local hospital, had to be driven there as I couldn't see properly. Today it was still blurry and didn't feel right so I went to the eye clinic in edinburgh and they found some more rust, which they pulled out with a needle.

Its sore now the anaesthetic is wearing off.

Goggles would have ben a good idea.

[mems1977]

yep,same thing happened to me Saturday.i thought dust might went

ln.washed my eyes immediately.nothing changed.,had to drive home,coulndt looked in the sun.my eyes were watering a lot,my nose too,plenty of pain.i tought if I went to bed early it might got better.i was wrong.haddo go to AE 5 am in the morning yesterday.doctor had a look and said I scratched my retina gave me some drops.it bit better but still heart a bit and blody 2.

hopping it will get better soon.

hope you recover soon too mate.

[Big J]

Scratched cornea, right eye, right in the middle. 

 

Just a bloody twig on a site visit. It's so easily done. Looking up at trees, turn around, twig in the eye.

 

Safety specs from now on I think.

[felixthelogchopper]

3 minutes ago, Big J said:

Scratched cornea, right eye, right in the middle. 

 

Just a bloody twig on a site visit. It's so easily done. Looking up at trees, turn around, twig in the eye.

 

Safety specs from now on I think.

I reckon you just wanted to play pirates. ?

[openspaceman]

26 minutes ago, Big J said:

Scratched cornea, right eye, right in the middle. 

 

Just a bloody twig on a site visit. It's so easily done. Looking up at trees, turn around, twig in the eye.

 

Be careful when you open your eye in the morning, don't rush because the healing is easily torn.