What to do if electric welding causes glare and pain

When welders are using electric welding, if they are not careful, their eyes may absorb a large amount of ultraviolet light, which may cause eye stinging, constant tearing, eye swelling and other symptoms. When this happens, first aid measures must be taken. If not, it may have adverse effects on the eyes. You can use cold compresses to relieve pain and weight. In addition, you can also use fresh milk or human milk to drip into the eyes for better results.

What to do if electric welding causes glare and pain

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 of welding glare

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.

In severe cases, it lasts two to three days. When the disease occurs, there will be sudden burning sensation and severe pain in both eyes, accompanied by photophobia, tearing, eyelid spasm, headache, redness 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.

After taking the above measures, you will generally recover in one or two days. If the photoelectric conjunctivitis is too severe and there is no obvious improvement, you must go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital to prevent substantial damage to the eyes.