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Emergency Eye Care

Occasionally urgent situations arise where it is beneficial to visit your eye doctor rather than having to wait in the ER for several hours. As we always have a doctor on-site in Oshawa, patients are usually accommodated the same day during office hours.

Emergency conditions may include conjunctivitis "pink eye", foreign bodies, eyelid lesions, corneal scratches, chemical eye injuries, ocular inflammation, trauma to the eyes, recent onset of flashes & floaters, or rapid loss of vision. Many of these conditions can be treated by an optometrist, but if your eye doctor feels it is out of the scope of his/her practice (e.g. detached retina), then the proper referral to an ophthalmologist will be promptly initiated.

With certain conditions there are steps that can be done at home prior to seeing your eye doctor: