How to Treat a Black Eye | First Aid Training

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A black eye is just the little vessels around your eye bursting and bruising. So it's normal to see discoloration. It's normal to have temporary visual disturbances. It's normal to get a little swelling. It's normal to have a headache or a neck ache. Those are all normal. If you have visual disturbances that last longer than that, if there's a deformity to the eye or to the face, if there's any kind of dizziness or behavior changes then you need to seek medical help. If there's clear fluid leaking from the ears or the nose, those are all signs of something that needs to be taken care of by a doctor. So what do you do? Number one you want to get the person away from any kind of danger. Get to a safe place. You're gonna want to put some ice on it. You can wrap the ice in a cloth. You can wrap ice in a sandwich bag. You can use frozen peas. Anything that is cold and that you can put on the eye and can mold to your facial features. You never want to put direct pressure. You don't want to press on it. You just want it to lay there and cool things off. You don't necessarily need a steak or anything like that. Anything cold will work. You're gonna want to ice your eye for 15 minutes every hour and then take it off. And then ice it again for 15 minutes and then take it off. And you can do that for about a day. If swelling continues for more than 48 hours, you're gonna want to talk to your doctor. When you go to sleep, you're gonna want to elevate your head that way things can drain and the bruising will go down. You also want to take some over the counter medication for pain. You want to stay away from something like aspirin because that's a blood thinner and that can disturb the bleeding. And that's what you do for a black eye.

[Messenger]

Don't lose another fight swing hard

[dilhowlter]

"A little swelling" ... I could barely see yesterday because it was swelling so much that it was closing my eye. Idgaf about the bruising I just want the swelling gone.

[eliaseisenberg]

my father caught me rolling a joint outside so he punched straight in the eye

[pikakenikole]

I had a really bad black eye, cuts and everything. It was really swollen like the size of a baseball, I got the swelling to go down during the night by using coconut oil and Jamaican castor oil. Then the next day I applied witch hazel all day and I went to my local herb store and got COMFREY. I smashed the comfrey down to a past and applied it on my eye. It's been two days since I got the black eye and there is no swelling and the bruising went away 75%.

Just thought I should leave these tips. Also I didn't apply ice, it was too cold

[Mustafa-lqnx]

My brother beat my eye I beat his eye.
Now we both have beaten black eyes.XD

[Rohandutt]

“ This disease is much more common to males especially the one whose married “ says a husband

[kapachan]

Thanks for the tip to not use aspirin because of it being a blood thinner. Very useful information

[jonas.]

my sister threw my phone in my face and my phone is really heavy so now i have a black eye😩

[TheSchlankerMann]

I went six rounds without getting knocked out..its fun when you train but in a fight its scary..

[BeepBpBp]

Pretty sure they're saying you ice it for 15 minutes :] after that wait an hour then ice for another 15 minutes, etc.

[icuhospitalER]

A black eye doesn’t mean you lost a fight

[TheSchlankerMann]

hell yeah! Not afraid to take a few hits.

[Pink]

Every time I see I still at light light like my light but every time I turn my light on it’s like two things in my light and every time I close my eyes after I open my eyes I see the saddle of the two things in my light

[pooplord]

who else just gave there sibling a black eye?

[lisaziur]

Can you show us what to put in the eye for bruised black and blue

[crystalreece]

Witch hazel worked great on my swelling

[Thehumansmilyface]

This rhinoplasty has me looking like a purple eyes panda bear 🐼

[mollyworthington]

I’m here bc I got drunk and ran into a window for a Greg’s sausage roll wasnt even Greg’s 😂

[theroyalkermit]

Wish I knew this when I had a black eye xD I asked for help and they just told me it looked bad xD

[thtpatrl]

I got hit in the eye today but I don’t see any bruising or swelling however I can definitely feel the pain around it so idk if this means anything is gonna bruise or not