Eye Casualty

Please attend Eye Casualty urgently if you have any of the following:

• • • Chemical liquids splashed into the eye. Remember your first aid treatment: flush your eye with plenty of lukewarm water;

• • • Cuts or lacerations to the eye lids;

• • • Penetrating eye injury;

• • • Sudden, painful eye causing sickness and feeling unwell;

• • • A red, painful eye after surgery;

• • • Rapid loss of vision following corneal graft surgery;

• • • Shadow/curtain across vision, increase in flashing lights/floaters;

• • • Red, painful eye associated with contact lens wear;

• • • Sudden painless loss of vision;

• • • If you are a regular patient of ours and you are concerned about your eye.

Please check the Royal Berkshire Hospital website for contact details and opening times.