[Real-time] sub-experience farmhouse playing chestnut without protection facilities risk blindness

One chestnut thorn in a spiky ball plucks into the cornea

The National Day traveled by car to Dawu to play. Mr. Xu, 55 years old, experienced the "Farmhouse Fun" playing chestnut and accidentally being dropped into the thorns. Yesterday, Mr. Xu hurried to the Department of Ophthalmology at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan. He would be punctured by surgery, but it was difficult to restore vision.

On the 6th, Wuhan rain stopped. Mr. Xu, who had been at home for five days, took his family and invited several friends to drive to Dawu. When I was eating at the farmhouse, I heard that after planting more than 10 chestnut trees in the mountains, they were already mature. He rose from time to time, looking for farmers to come to the bamboo poles and went up the mountain. He leaned on his head and kept hitting the branches. A giant thornball wrapped in chestnut hit his left eye unbiasedly, immediately bursting into pain and tears.

The local hospital took 11 stings from Mr. Xu’s cornea. After returning home, Mr. Xu still felt his eyes hurt. He rushed to Tongji Hospital yesterday morning. Professor Liu Hengming of the Department of Ophthalmology examined and checked, and Mr. Xu’s vision has not even reached 0.1. He searched carefully under the slit lamp and found three small burrs in the depths of the cornea. The bad thing was that there were 2 stings that directly pierced the cornea and ran to the anterior chamber. If the surgery is not performed, endophthalmitis will soon cause blindness. However, if the puncture is too deep, the operation will be extremely difficult. A slight carelessness will cause perforation of the eye.

Mr. Xu was immediately pushed into the operating room. Under the microscope, Liu Hengming carefully performed the thorn surgery.

"Through the puncture, inflammation can be quickly controlled, but the toxicity is very high." He told reporters regretfully that leaving scars on the cornea, seriously affecting vision, even if completely good, vision can not be restored.

The reporter learned from a number of major hospitals in Wuhan that every year before and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the chestnuts are ripe for the season, and many patients who are injured by the chestnuts will be seen. "During the National Day, there have been seven or eight patients who have been 'stabbed'." Liu Hengming said, chestnuts are wrapped in spiky shells, hard and small and poisonous. They can easily pierce the cornea or even crystal after entering the eye. Fungal infections cause corneal ulcers, keratitis, endophthalmitis, and risk of blindness due to untimely treatment.

He reminded that when picking chestnuts, protective measures must be taken. Wear protective glasses and wide-brimmed hats or wear motorcycle helmets. In the event that the eyes are stabbed, they must be taken to the doctor immediately. Do not rub it.