Eye care - A warning

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Yesterday I was skimming a small alcove ceiling when a small bit of multi dropped off the trowel and landed straight in my right eye - I washed it out straight away and carried on.

It felt a bit gritty still but I figured this would pass, I finished what I was doing within about an hour and as I could do no more for the day decided to pack up and go home. At this point it was getting a bit painful so thought I would stop and get some Optrex on the way home, however, on the way home the pain started to get worse so I decided to go to the local minor injuries unit to get it seen to properly.

When I told them what had happened they rushed me into a room (in front of all those that were waiting) and told me I should have gone there immediately as wet plaster is very alkaline and will burn much like cement will. I then had to endure it being flushed with 2 litres of saline solution which was very unpleasant and once they'd finished they made me go to the eye casualty unit at the local hospital.

I was examined by an eye specialist at the hospital who confirmed my cornea is quite badly burned - I now have an ointment and 3 different lots of drops that have to go into the eye up to 6 times a day until further notice and I have to go back to hospital today for a follow up and possibly for the next couple of days too.

I have to say at times it has been excruciatingly painful so please, If you have the misfortune to get wet plaster in your eye SEEK IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION!

It was only a small bit of plaster, about the size of a 10p piece which actually landed under my eye but crept over the lower eye lid and into the eye. I have never seen plasterers wear eye protection but I probably will in the future when doing ceilings.
 
hope your ok pal.. ive had about 20 bags full in the eyes over the years, shows you tho hey.. you only get yours eyes once...
 
happens all.the time when casting as you splash and it lands in your eyes stings like hell! But can't stop casting.
Wonder if casting plaster is as bad a multi?
 
Hurts like a bitch. Been to hos once before. They put a dye onto the eye to look for any scratches. I was lucky and had no damage and was ok next day or so. Normally wake up in a morning with a bit of crud in corner of my eyes which got in there the day before
 
Site im on have mandatory requirement to wear safety glasses, they do some really lightweight plastic ones which you soon get use to, after a while you hardly notice you have them on. I've went to a&e a few years ago to have my eyeball flushed its not a nice experience.
 
done this a few years ago first strike on first coat on a massive ceilin i was working with someone who was also the driver for the day and he refused to take me to the hospital and made me finish the lid with him then drove me home and i had to take myself to the hospital (warra prick he was) ended up with a permanent scratch on me eye, its not really bad but i have this constant black line/mark now.
wore glasses for a while but got fed up with them steaming up or getting scratched
 
It's happened to me many times. The pain killing eye drops are great! I wear glasses but sometimes a little can sneak behind now and then!
 
This has made me bother to go out in the garage and hunt out my safety glasses. Thanks to the op and I hope the eye is on the mend. I use the bolle hd safety glasses. well I did and will from now on. found them lightweight and comfortable to wear and very clear . About 7 or 8 quid I think but they do quite a few in the range
 
I find that the all fog up.never wear them now, used to be terrible if you got a dollop whilst wearing stilts?
 
I think most of the bolle range are anti fog as like the ones Ryan has put a link up for. You can even get metal framed ones for under a tenner.
 
mikeadams1985 said:
happens all.the time when casting as you splash and it lands in your eyes stings like hell! But can't stop casting.
Wonder if casting plaster is as bad a multi?
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yeah mike - casting plaster is slightly acidic, on setting generates more heat through chemical reaction than most plasters which are alkaline based
 
if it's a domestic, get your head under a tap asap. Or better still get the shower head on it for as long as you can bear it.
 
Keep an eye bath in the van, only a couple of quid from boots :RpS_thumbup:........












Did you notice I used the smiley wearing glasses :RpS_cool: ..........:RpS_unsure:
 
Back in the early 1960's my Dad was spraying hard wall on a job (a building for the 1962 world's fair in Seattle in the same complex where they built the Space Needle) any way they had a hose pack up and it let loose and my Dad got a face full of hardball. It packed the back side of one of his eye sockets. He went to the hospital and they had to pop his eye out and clean out the socket & eye ball & then they put it back in. I don't think he did much spraying after that.
 
TwoTrowels said:
Yesterday I was skimming a small alcove ceiling when a small bit of multi dropped off the trowel and landed straight in my right eye - I washed it out straight away and carried on.

It felt a bit gritty still but I figured this would pass, I finished what I was doing within about an hour and as I could do no more for the day decided to pack up and go home. At this point it was getting a bit painful so thought I would stop and get some Optrex on the way home, however, on the way home the pain started to get worse so I decided to go to the local minor injuries unit to get it seen to properly.

When I told them what had happened they rushed me into a room (in front of all those that were waiting) and told me I should have gone there immediately as wet plaster is very alkaline and will burn much like cement will. I then had to endure it being flushed with 2 litres of saline solution which was very unpleasant and once they'd finished they made me go to the eye casualty unit at the local hospital.

I was examined by an eye specialist at the hospital who confirmed my cornea is quite badly burned - I now have an ointment and 3 different lots of drops that have to go into the eye up to 6 times a day until further notice and I have to go back to hospital today for a follow up and possibly for the next couple of days too.

I have to say at times it has been excruciatingly painful so please, If you have the misfortune to get wet plaster in your eye SEEK IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION!

It was only a small bit of plaster, about the size of a 10p piece which actually landed under my eye but crept over the lower eye lid and into the eye. I have never seen plasterers wear eye protection but I probably will in the future when doing ceilings.
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I had this myself pal the other week, but i left it till the morning to go eye hospital as when i woke up my eye was stuck together with gunk and ****....they turned my eye lid inside out and flushed it with water for 20 minutes, not nice, then put loads of dyes in to check the alkaline of my eye.... And gave me eye drops like yourself, they gave me a telling off as 3rd time I've been there..

Always happens from rushing, or not paying attention properly, so from now on,my eyes and health are much more important...Less haste more speed as they say :-)
 
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