Talk:Photokeratitis

Latest comment: 10 years ago by Thawn in topic Welding goggles

What causes this?

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I really wish the article discussed the physiological cause of the condition.

Burning of the eyes by UV radiation, simple enough? Zulu Inuoe (talk) 10:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Merge and rename

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Arc eye describes the same injury (ultraviolet burn) as this snow blindness, just different situation and different rate of exposure/damage. Therefore they should be merged.

eMedicine article listed uses ultraviolet keratitis, but ICD10 lists as priority photokeratitis. Just as heart attack is covered in precised named Myocardial infarction, so WP:MEDMOS#Naming conventions indicates for medical topics to name precisely (and this acknowledged by WP:MOS before anyone cites to trump this).

So... at least merge into ultraviolet keratitis, I'm less pushy for photokeratitis. David Ruben Talk 01:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)Reply


Merged to Photokeratitis. Tim Vickers (talk) 19:55, 26 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Currently Snow blind redirects here, but Snowblind is its own dab page. These should probably go to the same place. Is photokeratitis the primary use of snowblind? If so, Snowblind should also redirect here and the dab page should be moved (back) to Snowblind (disambiguation). If not, Snow blind should redirect to Snowblind. I think Snow blindness can stay as a redirect here. --Scott Alter 20:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Have refirected Snow blind to Snowblind.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:18, 26 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Image

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Now what we need is an image. I see this condition on a fairly regular basis but unsure how to get a good image through the slit lamp without a special camera. Anyone have one?Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Welding goggles

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This part needs more context otherwise it sounds like a joke: " welding goggles with the proper filters, a welder's helmet, " What is missing is the information, that Snow blindness often occurs after welding with unprotected eyes and not just during skiing. The first thing that came to mind reading this part was someone trying to ski with a welders helmet on...

I added the following examples to the beginning of the introduction to clarify: "to the ultraviolet (UV) rays from either natural (e.g. intense sunlight at high altitudes) or artificial (e.g. the electric arc during welding) sources." Thawn (talk) 10:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)Reply