September and October are the ripening season for chestnuts, and although chestnuts are sweet and crunchy, the risk of picking them should not be underestimated. Mr. Hu, who lives in Luotian County, Huanggang, Hubei Province, suffered an accident while picking chestnuts, and his eyes were stabbed by chestnuts, and his eyes turned white overnight.
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Mr. Hu has a lot of chestnut trees in his house, and when he hit the chestnut with a 6-meter-long pole not long ago, the branch bounced open, and the chestnut ball flew directly over and pierced his eye. Mr. Hu's daughter said she saw more thorns in her father's eyes than she could count. After being taken to a local hospital, doctors removed eight chestnut thorns, but the injuries were too severe to be fully treated, and Mr. Hu was transferred to Wuhan.
Chang Xiaoke, director of the Department of Presbyopia and Cataract of Wuhan Aier Eye Hospital Hankou Hospital, said that Mr. Hu had many chestnut thorns pierced into his nose and eyes, and there were obvious multiple perforated wounds on the cornea. Mr. Hu has basically lost his eyesight and can only see his fingers waving in front of him.
Only one night after being transferred to Wuhan, Mr. Hu's black eyes turned completely white, and the doctor judged that the chestnut pierced into the eye caused traumatic cataracts. In a subsequent cataract removal operation, eight more chestnut spines were removed. Director Chang Xiaoke explained that the weight of chestnuts is large, and the force is in the middle of the lens, causing the lens to be cloudy and cause cataracts.
The hospital said that every year during the chestnut ripening season, there will be many patients with eye trauma caused by picking chestnuts in chestnut producing areas such as Luotian and Hong'an in Hubei. For this reason, doctors remind farmers to wear protective goggles when working to prevent head and eye injuries.
At present, it is the National Day holiday, and the doctor also reminds the public that when traveling, if there is a puncture or foreign body into the eyes, do not rub or squeeze yourself, and should go to the hospital in time. Director Chang Xiaoke suggested that the injured should not be treated by themselves, should not rub their eyes, and should not be flushed with water, so as not to enlarge the wound and cause infection, and should be sent directly to an ophthalmic hospital with conditions.
(Jingshi live reporter: Tong Liang, Liu Fang, correspondent: Ao Panpan)