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Eye injuries after solar eclipse surge following phenomenon
Fox news ^ | 04/11/2024 | Michael Dorgan

Posted on 04/12/2024 4:52:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Immediately after Monday’s solar eclipse, the number of people searching Google for eye-related injuries jumped while one doctor in New York City says she treated a surge of patients with eye pain.

"I had several patients come in panicking saying ‘I don't want to go blind,’" Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a New York City-based double board-certified doctor tells Fox News Digital. "I couldn't believe it, people actually looked at the eclipse without protection."

Doctors and eye specialists had been warning the public for days not to look directly at the sun, but apparently, some did not heed the advice.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: eclipse; eye; eyeinjuries; injuries; solar; solareclipse; stopor; youllgoblind
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Unbelievable
1 posted on 04/12/2024 4:52:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s perfectly safe to look at a total solar eclipse without eye protection. It’s just not safe to look right at the sun, especially just before or after a total eclipse.


2 posted on 04/12/2024 4:54:45 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Easily cured, just by eating a few Tide Pods.


3 posted on 04/12/2024 4:58:22 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Who hasn’t looked right at the sun, briefly?


4 posted on 04/12/2024 4:58:43 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Due to the past few years of lies from doctors regarding the fauci funded china virus, people just figured the doctors were lying again.


5 posted on 04/12/2024 5:01:47 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Racketeer

Using the Chinese made viewing glasses


6 posted on 04/12/2024 5:02:47 PM PDT by TStro (God made all men equal Sam Colt made them polite.)
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To: canuck_conservative

The affected must have stared at the eclipse for a sustainable amount of time to damage the eyes.


7 posted on 04/12/2024 5:03:30 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: canuck_conservative

If you know how you can look right at the sun without damage. But it’s best to just say “never do it”. It can burn holes in your cornea that will never completely heal your whole life.


8 posted on 04/12/2024 5:03:30 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27
IMG 3357
9 posted on 04/12/2024 5:04:06 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: canuck_conservative

Retina, I mean. Whatever.


10 posted on 04/12/2024 5:05:55 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Indeed. How stupid do you have to be?


11 posted on 04/12/2024 5:07:15 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Cornia? Wrong. Retina. Cornia merely passes light to lense which focuses and passes all wavelengths to the retina.


12 posted on 04/12/2024 5:10:27 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection...you may achieve excellence.)
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To: hole_n_one

Is that Jackson Lee looking for the “gas” station on the moon. ROTFL!!! All that gas that makes up the moon has to come from somewhere.


13 posted on 04/12/2024 5:10:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Unbelievable"

Totally believable, if you've been paying attention to what's going on in this country the past several decades...

14 posted on 04/12/2024 5:12:51 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (If I said something really stupid, chances are I was under the influence of AutoCorrect. 🙄🫤)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

We all did it as kids, looking briefly, it doesn’t make you go blind

But a cheaper way to get real protection is just to hold a piece of plate glass at the end of a candle flame, and let it get coated with carbon soot ... makes a great sun filter!


15 posted on 04/12/2024 5:15:35 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yes, I should have said retina.


16 posted on 04/12/2024 5:15:45 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

17 posted on 04/12/2024 5:16:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: canuck_conservative

Sounds sketchy. An arc welding filter will work, I forget the exact grade. 14 I think. But if you let your pupils fully constrict (opposite of dilate) instead of just suddenly looking at the naked sun, it won’t do a lot of damage to look right at it. I’ve heard of people that have permanent spots in their vision from looking at the sun, however. So doing it is stupid especially since there’s no real reason to.


18 posted on 04/12/2024 5:22:16 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: canuck_conservative
How much of this was from people who actually damaged their eyes vs those who glanced at the sun and had the normal day to day scratchiness that you otherwise never worry about but panicked because of it? If your eyes hurt, it isn't likely from retina damage.
19 posted on 04/12/2024 5:26:54 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: hole_n_one

Looks exactly like Maxine Waters!


20 posted on 04/12/2024 5:28:20 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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