Danger Signs
APPEARANCE
- Particular trouble adjusting to dark rooms (as at movies)
- Difficulty focusing on near or distant objects
- Squinting or blinking due to unusual sensitivity to light or glare
- Change in the color of iris
- Red-rimmed, encrusted or swollen eyelids
- Inflamed or red eyes
- Double vision
- Dark spot at center of viewing
- Lines that appear distorted or wavy
- Excess tearing or “watery eyes”
- Dry eyes with itching or burning
- Seeing spots, ghost-like images
POTENTIALLY SERIOUS SIGNS
- Sudden loss of vision in one eye
- Hazy or blurred vision
- Flashes of light or showers of black spots
- Halos or rainbows around light
- A certain-like blotting out of vision
- Loss of peripheral (side) vision
