What may increase your risk for problems from your eye injury?
Many conditions, lifestyle choices, medicines, and diseases interfere with your ability to heal or fight infection. You may be at risk for a more serious problem from your symptoms if you have any of the following. Be sure to tell your doctor.
Conditions
- Wear contact lenses
- Have another eye condition that increases the risk of vision loss, such as:
- Glaucoma or macular degeneration
- Retinal detachment
- Poor vision or blindness in one eye with injury to the other eye
- A problem or condition present since birth (congenital defect)
- Previous injury
- Previous surgery to injured area
- Normal vision is limited to one functional eye
- Surgery to remove the spleen
Lifestyle choices
- Alcohol abuse or withdrawal
- Drug abuse or withdrawal
- Smoking or other tobacco use
Medicines
- Blood-thinning medicines, such as warfarin, heparin, and ASA
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone
- Medicines to prevent organ transplant rejection
- Medicines that may affect the eye itself
- Medicines used to treat cancer (chemotherapy)
- Radiation therapy
Diseases
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Hemophilia
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
- Kidney disease
- Lupus
- Lyme disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Osteomyelitis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sickle cell disease
| Author: | Jan Nissl, RN, BS | Last Updated: January 23, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine Christopher J. Rudnisky, MD, FRCSC - Ophthalmology | |
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