A common eye injury is when you get a chemical splashed in your eye. This can be a household
cleaner, bleach, a common one especially around the holidays, like 4th of july, haloween,
birthday parties, is when people are playing with these glow sticks and the glow stick
actually busts open and you get glow stick juice in your eye. So what should you do when
you get a chemical in your eye? Let's focus in. Hey howdy everybody I'm Dr. Neal Guymon,
Dr. EyeGuy, and I do videos all about the eyes to help you with your eyes. Now lets
go over the exact steps you need to take if you ever get a chemical in your eye. Now first
thing you want to try and avoid rubbing your eyes becuase you could spread that chemical
further around in your eyes and cause more damage, so even if your eye hurts, try and
avoid rubbing your eyes. Next you actually want to rinse and wash off your hands because
you could still have some of the chemical on your hands and you could get more chemical
in your eye or the other eye. Now this next part is not fun, but you want to get to this
part as soon as you can. When you have a chemical splash in your eye it can actually do a lot
of damage very quickly, so you want to rinse your eyes out. Few things you can use here,
you can use sterile saline solution, if you have emergency eye wash you can use that,
if you don't, then the good old tap is what you will be using, clean tap water. Now the
key here is that you want to wash you eyes out for a minimum of 15 minutes, 15 minutes
of constant flushing, 20 minutes if you can. Now you want to get a nice stream of luke
warm water going, not too warm, not too cold. Which ever eye you have the chemical in you
want to face it down because you want to wash the chemical out. If you have the eye facing
up, you could wash the chemical into the other eye. Now you want to try your best keeping
your eyelids open so you have a constant flush of water down to that eye, you can blink every
once in a while to flush it out. And again, you want to do this for 15 minutes solid every
once in a while blinking, flushing, blinking, flushing, have a constant flush of that water
for 15 minutes try your best keeping your eyelids open. Do you best, this is important.
Another option especially if you can fit your head inside of the sink, or it's completely
uncomfortable to keep your head there for 15 min. You can jump right in the shower,
luke warm water, constant stream to wash your eyes out. This works really well especially
if you chemical in both of your yes. You can put both of you eyes right in there, you want
to try keep you eyelids open as much as possible allowing that constant stream to flush your
eyes out. Now 15 minutes minimum, 20 minutes if you can. Now seriously chemicals to your
eye can cause serious damage, depending on what type of chemical it is, if it's an acid
or a base. If it's a base type of chemical it can do more damage surprisingly. And so,
while your washing your eyes out, you can have someone call your local eye care doctor,
so you can go in and make sure that chemical, depending on how serious it is, didn't do
any damage. Now luckily glow stick juice is a mild irritant, it can a mild irritant to
the skin, but if you do get it in the eye it can irritate the eyes, but if you are flushing
your eyes out and afterwards you still have some redness, pain, maybe some light sensitivity,
you still want to go in and see your eye doctor. But hopefully with that glow stick juice it
won't do a lot of damage, hopefully. Another tip is on the chemical boxes, if it's a household
cleaner it will provide what type of chemical it is, you can actually bring that box into
your eye care provider and they can actually see what type of chemical it is because they
might want to do a pH test on your eyes to see where your eye is at on the pH scale and
they might need to further irrigate the eye and flush it out in order to bring it back
to it's normal pH range. I'll also put a link down below for some emergency eye wash you
can have on hand. Hey thanks for watching and if you have any questions about this make
sure you leave them in the comments below. Hey and thanks for checking out the video,
be safe during the holidays. It's actually one of the most common question I get during
the holidays, is someone actually gets this glow stick juice in their eye and they are
wondering what they should do. Make sure you follow these instructions and call your eye
doctor. I'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, focusing on you and your eyes, make sure you check
out my other videos right there and I'll see you in the next video.