Providing Urgent Eye Care Services in Saco, Maine
We offer urgent eye care services that require immediate and urgent eye care. If your eye is injured, don't try to judge the severity of it. Immediately seek the opinion of an eye doctor to lessen the risk of hurting your vision. We understand ocular urgent eye care can arise at any time.
Please call our Family Eye Care office at 207-284-4560 for further instructions. Use your best judgment on urgency, if you feel your need to find the nearest eye care services.
Eye Safety - Safety Eyewear - Eye Injury Prevention
This short video stresses the importance of knowing the hazards at home and the workplace regarding your eyes. In this video, we review a few actual incidents where people lost part or all of their vision, along with one whose vision was saved by safety eyewear.
Symptoms that require urgent eye care 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.
DO call our office in Saco at 207-284-4560 for further instructions! We are here for you!
Family Eye Care will be closed most weekdays from noon to 1 for lunch.
We are open by APPOINTMENT ONLY - regretfully we cannot accept walk-ins at this time.
We are open on Fridays by Appointment Only- Please call us to book an appointment.