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Corneal flash burn
A condition in which the eye's corneal surface gets damaged by ultraviolet radiation, such as getting sunburned.
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
How common it is:
Baby 0-2 | Rare | ||||
Preteen 6-13 | Very common | ||||
Teenager 14-18 | Very common | ||||
Young adult 19-40 | Very common | ||||
Middle-aged adult 41-60 | Very common |
Symptoms
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A 25-year old male asked:
How close does lightning have to strike to cause a corneal flash burn? How can one tell a flash burn from eye strain?
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A 31-year old asked:
What are corneal flash burns?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Have a chemical burn on my cornea from gasoline.Got under my contact, all of it didn't wash off, didn't bother me til 2 days later.Will it heal?
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A 29-year old male asked:
I have constant circular ring blue and brown scars on my corneal surface due to chemical burns. It is a chronic. Can muro 128 5% be used to heal this?
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A 45-year old asked:
What noticeable damage will be seen in the eye if the cornea suffered damage from thermal burn?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I felt burning sensation in both eyes so visited specialist. She prescribed few eye drops and told my cornea is infected and now my vision us blurred.
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A 53-year old female asked:
Started 2 days ago - sporadic, sudden burning on back even if just sitting, severe like on fire but not painful - not like normal hot flashes.
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A 36-year old male asked:
Flash by welding eyes burning?
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A 38-year old asked:
Can a camera flash interfere with the healing of a scratched cornea?
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A 36-year old male asked:
My eyes got exposed to flash welding. They now hurt and I have a burning sensation in my eyes. What should I do?
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A 34-year old asked:
What to do if my eye problems when i weld (is this flash burn?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Hot flashe, puking feel like burning up, took zofran, (ondansetron) temp normal 99.3 feel hot like pass out. puked every day for a week w/ anti nausea medicen.
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A 42-year old female asked:
What is the difference between burning hot skin to touch with no fever and hot flashes?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Rather common hot flashes lasting 1hr+, feels like blood ready to boil, makes skin feel like it is burning. always causes sweat, thirst and exhaustion?
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A 49-year old female asked:
I have MENOPAUSE since 8 years. And as a result, My hair started going thinner followed by less collagen production, hot flashes, skin burn. All of these problems have now become a routine for me. Any remedies/medication you would recommend.???
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A 19-year old female asked:
I have MENOPAUSE since 8 years. And as a result, My hair started going thinner followed by less collagen production, hot flashes, skin burn. All of these problems have now become a routine for me. Any remedies/medication you would recommend.???
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A 23-year old male asked:
Yesterday (still feeling it a bit today) I had flashes of feeling like my head was burning from back of head/neck that was radiating around my scalp, and when I woke up I found I had peed myself, and I havent done this in 20 years. Are these related?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Every so often I get like a heat flash over My body my stomach and chest burn, I feel like fainting but dont, i get cold air and it goes away I get anxiety and in my head bad could this be anxiety or something more serious?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Can ms. Feel like burning hot flashes , numbness in face and thru body to legs ?
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A 32-year old female asked:
Chest pain, burning sensations, tingling, hot flashes lobsessive thoughts that im gonnadie or will have heart attack.Please help normal 2decho jan 2013, ?
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A 25-year old male asked:
So umm... I have been having a lot of pain in my chest. A constant burning/achy pain with flashes of pin point severe sharp pains that happen in different places. I am sore and weak threw out my body. Also my BPM has been very high (143 resting), my bloo
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A 48-year old asked:
How to treat eye problems-visual burn in/specks of flashing lights, floaters?
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A 18-year old asked:
I have frequent heart burn, sharp pains in random places across my abdomen and rare heat flashes, could they just be from the heart burn?
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A 42-year old female asked:
I'm in surgical menopause.My face gets a burning feeling and I get a little sweat above top lip and at eyebrows.Is this a hot flash or something else.
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A 53-year old female asked:
Bad vaginal burning 6 weeks. Dr puzzled.None of usual diagnoses. 53 long endometriosis history, very dark urine/bladder pain.Hot flashes/hysterectomy?
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A 41-year old female asked:
Is it still a hot flash if your face doesn't feel hot/burning but you are sweating all over. I do not have a fever.I am in surgical menopause.
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A 23-year old male asked:
Had really intense burning like waves/flashes on my scalp all yesterday (still going on today) and peed myself while sleeping last night and havent done that in 20 years. Could this have been a first time seizure or something else?EEG was recommended?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Went tanning wore goggles woke up middle of night, severe eye pain itchy watery light sensitive. Flash burn? If so how to treat?
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A 46-year old female asked:
I have a lymph nodes and at times my armpits burn and my nipples tingle and I have hot flashes and joint pain what could this be?
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A 40-year old female asked:
Had total hysterectomy 9 months ago. Was doing fine in 0.9 mg premarin (conjugated estrogens). Now having hot flashes, abd burning, zero sex drive, what's going on?
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