Emergency Eye Care in Centre Wellington

Emergency Eye Care Visits

An eye emergency is a situation where you need a medical professional’s help ahead of your regularly scheduled visits.

You may need emergency eye care if you experience unusual eye pain, physical trauma, or a sudden change in your vision.

At Trailside Eye Care, we make special accommodations for those needing emergency eye care. Contact us immediately if you experience the following symptoms:

• Sudden loss of vision or disruptions like blurry vision or flashes and floaters
• Pain or extreme discomfort in your eyes
• Headaches or bouts of dizziness
• Inflammation

Injuries and acute eye diseases can both constitute an eye emergency. Call us or the nearest hospital in the following cases:

• Traumatic force to the eye or head
• Severe allergic reactions
• Chemical exposure to the eye
• Scrapes, lesions, or punctures on the surface of your eye
• Foreign objects entering the eye

Emergency & Regularly Scheduled Eye Care Visits

If you’re unsure of whether to delay a visit, there’s good advice on when you might need an optometrist to take a look. You might struggle with the decision to report any eye health symptoms you’re experiencing as an emergency, and that’s understandable.

But as a general rule, quickly developing symptoms mean you should seek help. If you feel no symptoms, please follow the recommended schedule. Let us know if you have questions!

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