burned eye with essential oil, will it return to normal?

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burned eye with essential oil, will it return to normal? 2015-12-30 22:33:41 Post No. 16623276
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burned eye with essential oil, will it return to normal? Anonymous 2015-12-30 22:33:41 Post No. 16623276 [Report]

So yesterday I rubbed some ginger oil in jojoba oil on my head to ease a headache, but got some in my eye. I just sat for an hour watching TV and closed the eye it got in, because thats happened before when I accidentally got oil in my eye, before realizing that when I opened my eye and it looked like I had a smudge on my glasses, it was actually my eye that was fucked up.

I then rinsed with water, but the eye was burning a lot after that and vision was blurry. It was painful to blink. so I kept eyes closed, and nose got runny on that side of my face.

I slept a lot and now there is no more pain, just irritation in my right eye, but my vision is still weird:
Wearing my glasses, if I leave only the right eye open, my vision is blurry. If I do the same thing and take glasses off, it looks like my right eye vision has actually improved and I see as if I was normally wearing glasses, but gets slightly blurry if I focus on an object.

So what I want to ask is will my vision go back to normal soon, is my eye just a little inflamed, or did I permanently damage it? I will have ot wait until next year to go see optometrist.doctor.

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Anonymous 2015-12-30 22:43:54 Post No.16623319
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Anonymous 2015-12-30 22:43:54 Post No.16623319 [Report]

Keep a cold compress (of just cold water on a cotton ball) on whenever you can. Likely it will heal, the damage caused by such oils isn't too bad, and the eye has a great healing capacity. Keep it not only closed, but blocking all light from it (so it won't burn any further), get some bandaging. See a doctor if after 3 days it's still bad, but it likely won't be. Just stop trying to see through this eye, avoid stressing it.

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Anonymous 2015-12-30 22:54:07 Post No.16623354
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Anonymous 2015-12-30 22:54:07 Post No.16623354 [Report]

>>16623319
Would have helped yesterday, I'm passed that phase now, since there's no more pain or redness. Just a minor irritation and slightly disturbed vision. Just seeking reassurance it will completely heal.

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Anonymous 2015-12-30 23:26:56 Post No.16623477
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Anonymous 2015-12-30 23:26:56 Post No.16623477 [Report]

>>16623354
It will, but even if your eye doesn't hurt anymore, you should still let it rest for a day or two. Get yourself an eyepatch and wish everyone a happy new YARRRR.

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 02:06:47 Post No.16624017
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 02:06:47 Post No.16624017 [Report]

>>16623477
OP here, I seem to be doing better than I thought. I went outside for an hour and didn't feel to awkward. This morning was seriously considering wearing an eye patch, but after I washed up my eye felt pretty okay, just slightly irritated and numb, with mildly blurred vision- which I notice seems to be slowly getting better. Considering that 20 hours ago it hurt to blink and was hard to keep my eyes open, I will assume that I'm okay and whatever is lingering will go away before too long.

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:11:49 Post No.16624292
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:11:49 Post No.16624292 [Report]

>>16624017
well whoop de doo! only an hour later and my vision seems almost back to normal.

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:37:01 Post No.16624388
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:37:01 Post No.16624388 [Report]

I got chemical burns on my fucking eyes from being sprayed with OC when I worked at a prison.

Healed fine, you'll be fine.

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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:42:35 Post No.16624406
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Anonymous 2015-12-31 03:42:35 Post No.16624406 [Report]

>>16624388
Whats OC?

Thanks for the feedback, I'm feeling better every hour and now my vision is back to normal.