Authors : Baby Deka, Baby Deka, Saura Kamal Dutta, Saura Kamal Dutta, Shibashis Deb, Shibashis Deb, Harish Goswani, Harish Goswani, Tanveer Ahmed, Tanveer Ahmed
DOI : 10.18231/j.ijceo.2020.129
Volume : 6
Issue : 4
Year : 2020
Page No : 616-621
Aims and Objectives: The aim was to compare the effectiveness between patching and non-patching in the treatment of non-infected, non-contact lens related traumatic corneal abrasions, as well as of abrasions following foreign body removal.
Materials and Methods: A prospective, controlled, randomized study on 100 patients over 1 year who presented with ocular pain, with a history of trauma or foreign body removal & had corneal abrasion on fluorescein stain. Patients were randomized into two groups: with patch group (receiving an eye patch with topical antibiotics) and no patch group (topical antibiotics with no eye patch) and patients were followed up.
Results: Patients with corneal abrasions healed significantly faster and relieved symptomatically in the no patch group.
Conclusion: We conclude that routine use of eye patching is not effective in the healing of simple corneal abrasion.
Keywords: Corneal abrasion, Corneal foreign body removal, Fingernail injury, Patching.