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Emergencies
What is an eye emergency?
The following require urgent attention.
- Sudden loss of vision
- Sudden distorted vision
- Curtain or shadow obscuring vision
- Flashing lights
- New floaters
- Pain
- Foreign body in the eye
- Corneal abrasion
- Red eye with pain
- Red eye with light sensitivity
- Sudden loss of side vision
- Sudden double vision that does not go away
- Sudden change in pupil size in one eye
- Sudden loss of colour vision
The following are less urgent but require attention
- Red eye and discharge with no pain, no light sensitivity and normal vision
- Watery, itchy eyes
- Lid infections such as styes or crusty lids
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St Michael’s Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst Street
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Avenue
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Call 416-968-2300 to book an eye exam or visit our clinic