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People apparently put sunscreen on their eyeballs to watch the eclipse


By Eric Ting, SFGATE Published 12:50 pm, Sunday, August 27, 2017

Doctors warned people not to look at the eclipse without eye protection. Sunscreen blocks the sun. So using sunscreen as eye protection makes sense, right?

A nurse in Redding [CA] stated that her hospital hasn't seen any patients with retinal damage from the eclipse, but they saw patients who put sunscreen on their eyeballs to watch the eclipse.

Nurse Practitioner Trish Patterson at Prestige Urgent Care told KRCR that one of her colleagues saw multiple people who sought medical attention after putting sunscreen in their eyes because they didn't have eclipse glasses.

"One of my colleagues at moonlight here stated yesterday that they had patients presenting at their clinic that put sunscreen on their eyeball, and presented that they were having pain and they were referred to an ophthalmologist," she said.

A report in The Sun revealed that doctors in Virginia also treated people who put sunscreen in their eyes to watch the eclipse.

Staring at the eclipse without eye protection (that isn't sunscreen) can be incredibly dangerous, and in most cases patients won't experience symptoms until 24 hours after exposure.

Patterson stated that it only takes a few seconds of looking into the sun for retinal damage to occur. Common symptoms include cloudiness and dark spots

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Reminds me of the Weird Al lyric about putting whiteout on the computer screen to correct typos.