If it's behind the colored part of the eye like a red line or something, that's when I should go to the ER. Causes It may result from being strangled Certain infections of the outside of the eye (conjunctivitis) where a virus or a bacterium weaken the walls of small. So just to make sure I'm clear, if it's in the white of the eye just go see my own eye doctor. You got to figure those vessels are pretty small, probably doesn't take a whole lot of pressure or trauma to make one of those burst open and that's usually what causes it. Someone got poked in the eye or they hit something or maybe they were just rubbing their eye too hard and it just caused a little blood vessel to burst. What has actually happened is a subconjunctival hemorrhage, which is the breakage of tiny blood. Madsen: You know, most cases I see, it's some kind of trauma. Your first thought might be that your eyeball is bleeding. You could probably just go see an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. And you say, "Wow, this looks awful," probably you don't have to go to the ER. I has lots of thin blood vessels running it it. So the reason that's concerning, that can cause issues with high pressure in the eye and cause staining of the eye, all sorts of things that can be problems, that would be a reason to go to the ER.īut here we're talking more about you wake up in the morning, you've got blood in the white party of your eye in the sclera. conjunctiva is the multilayers, clear, loose tissue on the surface of the white part of your eye. So that's not behind the white part of the eye, that's behind the cornea and that's called a hyphema. Now, the one exception to this might be if you get hit in the eye and there's actually blood behind the cornea, so behind that clear part of the eye in front of the iris, the colored part of the eye, and you see a line there that looks really dark, that's more concerning. So it's something that draws a lot of attention, but it's not something you really need to go to the ER for. If it's a bruise in your eye, everyone is going to mention it. The blood accumulates between the tissues on the white.
If you get a little bruise on your arm, no one's asking you. A subconjunctival haemorrhage is caused by a bleed of a small blood vessel on the white of the eye. If you have a Band-Aid on your finger, no one ever asks you about it. It's kind of like if you get like a scratch on your face and you have a Band-Aid, everyone is going to ask you about. Madsen: They look nasty and they look awful.
Madsen: So this is probably not a reason to go to the ER. You have a broken blood vessel in the eye and I'm talking about like, you know, sometimes you'll see somebody, they have an eye and there's just like a lot of blood in it, right? Is that a reason to go to the ER or not?ĭr. Go ahead and play along and see if you know the answer to today's situation. Interviewer: It's another edition of ER or Not with Dr.
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