WELDING FLASH BURN OR ARC EYE – TRY NATURAL HOME REMEDIES
If you have welding flash burns or arc eye, don’t panic and try these home remedies for immediate relief.
Arc eye – Such a painful experience, if you accidentally looked at the welding arc 3-10 hours before. A familiar story of an awful experience of pain and having sand in the eyes for hours.
Feeling of discomfort, blurred vision and desperately looking for some relief at these odd hours by home remedies.
The pleasant news is that some of the home remedies really work and are recommended by ophthalmic people. In this article, we will discuss the treatment of welding flash burn at home with some common household products.
Let us go through these easy and cool remedies and how they affect relieving us.
WHAT IS AN ARC EYE?
Like sunburn the arc or flash eye is temporary blindness, discomfort, feeling of sand in the eyes, and affects both the eyes.
Flash burn is an awful situation with inflammation of the cornea. The clear tissue in front of the eyes when exposed to harmful UV light leads to arc or flash burn.
This may be caused by any type of UV light, but welding arcs are the main culprit, and so they are called ‘arc eye’ or welder’s flash.
It affects both the eyes and the corneal repair happens within a few hours and usually cures without any residual scar. If the flash burn is more severe and not treated properly, it may lead to infection. It can turn out to be fatal leading to a partial loss of vision.
An arc eye is known by other names as welding flash, welder’s flash, welding flash burns, welding eye flash burn, or flash burn while ophthalmologists call it photokeratitis.
Anyone who is exposed to UV radiation can suffer from an arc eye from a natural or artificial source. As in the case of reflection of sunlight on snow, direct sunlight, photography flood lamp’s light. and flash from the welder torch gets are the sources of arc light.
