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Urgent Eye Doctor Visit or Wait and See? How to Decide Fast
A red eye can be harmless, or it can be the first sign of something that needs treatment the same day. A scratch from a fingernail, a contact lens that stayed in too long, a sudden shower of floaters, a chemical splash, a child rubbing an eye after a playground fall, all of these can look similar at first glance, but they do not carry the same risk. That is the part that makes eye problems tricky. People often try to “sleep on it” because the pain seems mild, or because the
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