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Eye trauma in Children

Have you ever had trauma to your eyes? How if it happens to the children? It would be troublesome to calm him down.
Eye trauma is an act that intentionally or unintentionally causing injury to the eyes. Trauma eye is the eye emergencies, and can also be a police case. Injury incurred during eye trauma can be mild to severe or can even cause blindness to loss of the eye. Eye trauma can happen anywhere. In the household are also not uncommon to be the scene of the eye trauma. Household tools often cause eye injury or trauma.
Well we’ll see some things about the trauma of the eye. Various forms of trauma:

• Physical or Mechanical
1. Blunt trauma, such as hit by hand, hit a tennis ball, or shuttlecock, slingshots and so on.
2. Sharp trauma, such as knives, scissors, forks, stationery, and even woodworking tools.
3. Bullet trauma, is a combination of blunt trauma and sharp trauma, sometimes the bullet was left inside the eyeball.
• Chemical
1. Trauma base chemistry. Chemicals such as alkaline money laundry soap, shampoo, floor cleaner, chalk, glue (adhesive).
2. Acid chemical trauma. Chemicals that are acidic such as vinegar, acids laboratory materials, tear gas canisters.
• Physical
1. Thermal trauma, such as heat, electricity, welding rays, sunlight.
2. Trauma radioactive materials, such as ray radiation for radiological workers.

s Symptom
Symptoms are caused depending on the type of trauma and trauma of heavy and light.
• Trauma sharp but can also cause injury accompanied by a foreign body left in the eye. Foreign objects left behind may be non-toxic and poisonous. Toxic metal objects like iron, copper and materials from plants such as pieces of wood. Non-toxic materials such as sand, glass. Non-toxic materials can also cause infection if contaminated by bacteria.
• blunt trauma may cause minor injury while the decline in vision to severe, the bleeding inside the eyeball, the release of retina (retinal) or until the dissolution of the nerves causing blindness vision settled.
• Trauma acid chemistry generally show more severe symptoms than the trauma of chemical bases. The eyes look red, swollen, tear out excessive and the patient was very painful, but the trauma of base will be fatal because it can destroy the network of eye / cornea gradually.

Handling
If your child exposed to trauma to the eye, the first step is to identify the types of trauma, cause of trauma, severity of injury. Calm the child, give pain reducer when available, provide first aid as much as possible. Children who exposed to eye trauma should be sent as soon as possible to the existing hospital ophthalmologist. Let’s not more than 6 hours after trauma to avoid infection.
Steps that need to be done if the child is exposed to the trauma of the eye as follows:
• blunt trauma is wrapped with tape, if there is give antibiotic eye ointment
• Trauma injury sharply with the eyes do not give treatment in any form. Better eye wrapped with tape. Immediately brought to the hospital. In general, surgery should be done immediately with general anesthesia so the child directly fasting.
• Trauma of chemical acids and bases should be immediately flushed with clean water flowing for as much as 10-15 minutes, then given eye ointment and wrapped with tape sent to hospital immediately available ophthalmologist.
However, it is best to keep your child should not be affected by the trauma of the eye. Therefore, should keep out the range of materials that could give the possibility of eye trauma in children.

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