What to do if your eyes hurt after welding?

When using electric welding, if your eyes are hit by the welding, you must use certain methods to treat it in time. When this happens, you should immediately dip a towel in cold water and apply it to the painful eye. This can relieve pain and avoid swelling. If it is more serious, it is best to drop a few drops of human milk into the eyes, which is the most effective. If not, you can use fresh milk.

What to do if your eyes hurt after welding?

1. After your eyes are burned by electric welding, immediately apply a towel soaked in cold water (if you are in a hurry, just use cold water) to your eyes, then close your eyes and rest to reduce eye movement.

2. Get human milk or fresh milk, boil it, then cool it and put it into the eyes. This is an emergency measure, but it is relatively simple and practical, and can relieve pain. The specific requirements are that human milk or cow's milk must be boiled at high temperature for sterilization, and the boiled milk must be cooled thoroughly to avoid secondary eye injury due to high temperature of the milk. A few drops will be enough for application, and then apply once every two or three minutes until the pain is gradually relieved. After that, the application time can be appropriately extended, and you can stop applying milk after 5 hours depending on the situation.

3. After emergency measures are taken, you can apply some antibiotic eye ointment to prevent infection or worsening of the condition.

4. After suffering from photoelectric conjunctivitis, you should pay attention to rest and avoid the stimulation of strong light. It is best to wear tinted glasses for protection when going out. At the same time, try to reduce the rotation and friction of the eyeballs.

Symptoms

When welding, welders may be careless or some people may be too curious and watch the welding closely, and their eyes may be injured by the strong light of the welding. Symptoms include red and swollen eyes that cannot be opened, dry and blurred eyes, and tears.

In fact, eye pain caused by electric welding is medically called photoelectric ophthalmia, which is the most common type of radiation injury in ophthalmology and is the result of exposure to short-wave ultraviolet rays. Electric welding and thermal cutting operations can easily induce the disease due to the strong ultraviolet and infrared rays produced by high-temperature arc light. The incubation period of this disease is generally 6-8 hours, and two to three days in severe cases. When the disease occurs, there is a sudden burning sensation and severe pain in both eyes, accompanied by photophobia, tearing, eyelid spasm, headache, flushing and burning sensation of eyelids and facial skin, and conjunctival congestion and edema in the eye fissure. These symptoms are very uncomfortable, and most people don’t know how to deal with them. Now I will teach you some simple methods to solve the problem of eye pain caused by welding.