Ds2 has taken a speeding pencil to the eye - how long before he should be able to open it?

[TooTicky]

Not sure whether to be worried yet.

Ouch, no idea sorry, but wincing in sympathy!

sharp pencil to the eye? personally i'd be at a+e or phoning to see eye clinic.

ouch ouch ouch

Poor thing..ice any help?

agree with misdee. You can't take any risks with eyes.

Right, he has now opened it but says things are still fuzzy.
Dp out with car and currently uncontactable.

It was the blunt end of the pencil

He and ds1 were playing blowpipes fgs.

give him some sunglasses until you can get him to a doctor.

Really? Okay

He is now singing
But he did cry for aaages

I once poked my eye with a pen and I wore sunglasses afterwards because it was so painful to open my eye.

I thought I had damaged my eye once and went to docs-they sent me straight to optical dept of hospital.Luckily no lasting damage but bloody hell,its very painful.

If his vision is blurry he should be seen by a doctor.

My brother once had a football in his eye, vision a bit blurry after (as if he had mud in it, he said). Trip to A&E, then whisked to the eye A&E, partially detached retina.

Hi.

I had a similar situation last night with my 19 month old. She got poked quite badly in the eye and it bled. I didn't know what to do. I phoned NHS direct and they told me to take her straight down to A&E which is where I spent my evening last night. They gave her some yellow drops and saw a big scratch and she now has antibiotic drops. I am still worried but it is clearing up now.I would ring NHS direct.

Have been to doctor and then hospital. Ds2 okay. Thanks all

glad he's ok

Has now been over 48 hours, ds2's eye still not opening fully and vision blurry.
The abrasion is right on his cornea.
Should I be worrying?

Just seen this. If's he's still the same this morning, I would phone the hospital again.

Thanks, yes I think I will.

Go to an eye hospital if possible. Most have a walk-in clinic, though maybe not on Sundays. Good luck.

what did they do at the hospital???

my DD3 had this (only sharp end) courtesy of her brother when she was 4'ish. she needed anti/b eye drops for about a week as she had scratched her eye too.

all was fine

But was her vision blurry for several days?

hmmm......can;t remember to be honest. I know that the day it happened vision was, but we have an eye A&E five mins away from us so we took her there that evening, they put drops in and looked into a special eye instrement and showed me the scratched across her eye (the drops wer bright orange to 'stain' the scratch and she had bright orange snot for a few days aftere.....the kiddies were fascinated) and gave anti/b drops. told me to come back if there was swelling/weeping/vision probs and there were none that concerned me so we didn;t...she had a check-up a month later tho that they arranged and all was clear by then!

I would say that you need another opinion as to lave the eyes can cause more probs. I have ignored mine and it has turned out that I had an inflammation and now have a damaged iris , am to need glasses now!! (altho I am an adult so of course tis different as we do ignore ourselves).

I am sure he will be fine, but he will most likely need drops of some kind.

oooh....one bit of advice given to me by my optomistrist....

he said that any decent opticians/optomotrists would see you in their shop if you couldn;t get to the eye A&E....he said that if mine recurs again then I am to go to him instead ans they too carry anti/b drops etc.

hth and you get sorted soon

Yes, we had the staining stuff too.

Good idea about opticians though...