Sunburned Eyeballs
I did something really thoughtless over the weekend. My two youngest girls were cheering for the football team and we were out in the sun for three hours straight during the hottest time of the day. Being mid-September, I wasn't thinking about sun damage. I should have been. I ended up with a bad sunburn on my arms, chest, and face. The worst part - sunburn on my lips and my eyeballs (not eyelids but my actual eyes).
Talk about eye damage! My eyes feel like something has been scraping them...real gritty. I burned them pretty good. I didn't have any regular sunglasses with me but I could've grabbed my husband's. Nobody would have noticed if I would have wore Men's Sunglasses. Would've preferred his to frying my eyeballs! I wasn't even thinking about sunburn.
2 comments:
i sunburned my eyeballs lastnight when iwas tanning, how long did yours take to heal?!!
Sorry to hear about the sunburned eyes. It's definitely not fun. A friend I was talking to said it sounds like his flashburn when he welds.
My eyes were sensitive to touch for the first 24 hours (found that out the hard way when I went to rub them). They also felt like they had sand in them - gritty. I kept eye drops in them for the first 24 hours and it helped soothe the gritty feeling somewhat. By about 36 hours after the eye burn, I didn't need to use eye drops anymore and they just felt a little "off" sometimes but not painful or irritating. Then they were fine after that. It didn't take very long to heal at all. Sleep helped a lot (keeping them closed). Hope yours heal soon!! If they don't, you might want to see a doctor to make sure you didn't do more damage than I did. You were up close and personal with the tanning lights - closer than I was with the sun.
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