What to do when you get eye injury do to a laser scanner? ?

What to do when you get eye injury do to a laser scanner? ?
If you have trouble seeing after the reflection hits your eye?

Best answer:

CALL GILBERT AND MOTLICK..ONE CALL THATS ALL!

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2 Comments for What to do when you get eye injury do to a laser scanner? ?

1. Biofreak | May 30th, 2005 at 2:24 am

Go see an eye doctor immediately. If you can’t do that, go to the hospital. If you truly have laser eye damage, immediate attention is necessary.

However, there probably was not any damage. If you have trouble seeing the same way you do after looking into a flashlight, in that there’s an image of the light that lasts for several seconds, up to a minute, then there is no damage and you are fine. If you still have problems seeing after several minutes (let’s say 15), then you should go see a doctor. However, lasers scanners are not powerful enough to do eye damage unless you stare into them for several seconds. I would be shocked if you actual damaged your eye with a laser scanner.

Now that it’s 4 hours later, if you still have problems seeing, then you should have seen a doctor 3 hours ago.
2. Davey | January 11th, 2011 at 6:55 pm

A friend was lasered in the eyes by a hooligan at work. Anyhow he now has white dots on his retina. “Scarring caused by laser” according to an MDs report. OK he isn’t blind but this hasn’t done his eyesight any good at all and he now has “floaters” in his vision. Because the injury is covert – unlike for example a broken leg, getting lawyers interested is extremely difficult. The scanner was the pistol type and it had a warning label. Unfortunately the pistol design seems to encourage low-life to play at Star-Trek.