What are Hyphema Signs and Symptoms?
The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Hyphema. This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Hyphema. Furthermore, symptoms of Hyphema may vary on an individual basis for each patient. Only your doctor can provide adequate diagnosis of symptoms and whether they are indeed symptoms of Hyphema.
A person with a hyphema may have had a recent incident of eye trauma, might feel pain in the injured eye, and may have blurred vision.If the hyphema is large, the eye itself may look as if it is filled with blood. Smaller hyphemas are not readily visible to the naked eye. Extremely large hyphemas filling the entire anterior chamber appear dark red and have been called “eight ball” hyphemas.
1.Vision abnormalities
2.Light sensitivity
3.Eye pain
4.Bleeding in the front portion of the eye
Hyphema means bleeding in your eye in the anterior chamber. Any trauma to the eye can cause bleeding. Bleeding is often starts in the front of the eye between the cornea and the iris, and goes way back into the anterior
chamber of the eye.
The causes of this eye injury is from a blunt trauma such as a flying object that hits the eye, or an athletic related injury.
What you will notice if you have hyphema is a lot of eye pain and blurry vision. The eye will also appear bloodshot and very red.
This is an urgent condition of the eye. If you are having a bloody appearing eye, contact your ophthalmologist immediately. If he or she cannot see you right away, the go to your emergency room department. Do not try to patch the eye as it could make the eye even worse.
Your eye care specialist is going to need to know exactly what happened and what type of object your eye was hit with. He or she will do an entire eye examination on your eyes including the visual acuity testing. Next, looking into your affected eye with a slit lamp which is a special microscope to what is going on within the eye structures etc. When the specialist looks back there, he may see something resembling a clot type that is within your anterior chamber of the eye. If the hyphema is small, it may appear in layers of your anterior chamber.
Another thing your doctor may see while looking closely is a microhyphema. This is a cloudy film that contains red blood cells in the anterior chamber.
A person with a hyphema may have had a recent incident of eye trauma, might feel pain in the injured eye, and may have blurred vision.If the hyphema is large, the eye itself may look as if it is filled with blood. Smaller hyphemas are not readily visible to the naked eye. Extremely large hyphemas filling the entire anterior chamber appear dark red and have been called “eight ball” hyphemas.
1.Vision abnormalities
2.Light sensitivity
3.Eye pain
4.Bleeding in the front portion of the eye
Hyphema means bleeding in your eye in the anterior chamber. Any trauma to the eye can cause bleeding. Bleeding is often starts in the front of the eye between the cornea and the iris, and goes way back into the anterior
chamber of the eye.
The causes of this eye injury is from a blunt trauma such as a flying object that hits the eye, or an athletic related injury.
What you will notice if you have hyphema is a lot of eye pain and blurry vision. The eye will also appear bloodshot and very red.
This is an urgent condition of the eye. If you are having a bloody appearing eye, contact your ophthalmologist immediately. If he or she cannot see you right away, the go to your emergency room department. Do not try to patch the eye as it could make the eye even worse.
Your eye care specialist is going to need to know exactly what happened and what type of object your eye was hit with. He or she will do an entire eye examination on your eyes including the visual acuity testing. Next, looking into your affected eye with a slit lamp which is a special microscope to what is going on within the eye structures etc. When the specialist looks back there, he may see something resembling a clot type that is within your anterior chamber of the eye. If the hyphema is small, it may appear in layers of your anterior chamber.
Another thing your doctor may see while looking closely is a microhyphema. This is a cloudy film that contains red blood cells in the anterior chamber.