Emergency Eye Care Services

Providing Emergency Eye Care Services in White Rock

During business hours, please call our White Rock Optometry office at 604-536-4999 for further instructions. If you are unable to reach us and your vision issue is urgent, do not delay treatment - visit your nearest emergency room.

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Symptoms that require emergency service include, but are not limited to:

• Sudden loss of vision
• Sudden double vision
• Sudden red/painful eye
• Pink Eye
• New onset flashes and/or floaters
• Foreign body in the eye (especially metal or chemicals)
• New or worsening swelling or pain after eye surgery

Things NOT to do while waiting for professional medical assistance:

• DO NOT press on an injured eye or allow the victim to rub the eye(s).
• DO NOT attempt to remove a foreign body that is resting on the cornea (the clear surface of the eye through which we see) or that appears to be embedded in any part of the eye.
• DO NOT use dry cotton (including cotton swabs) or sharp instruments (such as tweezers) on the eye.
• DO NOT attempt to remove an embedded object.

Call our office in White Rock at 604-536-4999 for further instructions! We are here for you!