Almost every day that goes bi in Primary Care, one or more eye problems present for care. These may range all the way from simple and easily remedied to emergent, needing quick referral to an eye specialist. The purpose of this article is to present a hypothetical day in the office with a wide range of eye disorders.
Let’s say for starters that there is a fellow in Room 1 who thinks he has a contact lens stuck under his lower eyelid. Since it is potentially misplaced we will call it a possible foreign body in the eye. We numb his eye with tetracaine drops and after it is anesthetized, we gently invert the lower lid and look for the lens. It is not there so we gently invert the upper lid and look for it, and it is not there either, hence, there is not visible foreign body. So now we put some special staining fluoscein drops in his eye and look at it under the Wood’s Light. Continue reading ‘Eye Problems in Primary Care’ »