Scratched Cornea

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Does anyone else seem to get a scratched cornea often ? The reason I am asking my son (11) gets them a lot. We can't seem to see a pattern of him getting hit in the eye, rubbing his eye, etc. I know one the dr.'s felt he had a lash growing inward and that is probably how he got it. But other times they see no reason why it happens. Well Tue the school nurse called me and told me his eye was red and he had a headache....off to the specialist we go. Well this time not only does he have a bad scratch on his cornea he has a terrible bacterial infection in his cornea. Well Tue & Wed antibiotic drops were every 1/2 hr threw the night ( although that didn;t go so well...he sleeps on his tummy and it was a war zone trying to get them in at night) wed- Friday drops every hr. His surgeon has seen him every day since it happened, we go back 9 am tomorrow again . His eye is blood red, no white at all. This time his surgeon is very

concerned. Right now his vision is blurry but not terrible. It scares me to know everytime this happens it leaves scars on his cornea. Thank God up to this point his vision is not being deminshed because of it, but like the surgeon says with each scar it does get a little worse. Just wondering if anyone else has this problem. My husband sees his eye dr ever 4 weeks to get tiny hairs plucked so it doesn't scratch him. My husband has lad a few laser treatments to get rid of the hairs.....oh he hates it becasuse they stick this rather long needle in right up close to his eye before they laser it ....Gross ! lol Hope everyone is well......everyone is always in my thought. Hugs Sharon <a href="http://www.TickerFactory.com/"><img border="0" src="http://www.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/1;14;11/st/20050609/k/3901/preg.png"></a>

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