People went to urgent care after putting sunscreen in their eyes to watch the eclipse

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The eclipse, which was Monday but feels like it was seven years ago, was a kind of cool thing to experience, especially if you had those special glasses to actually view it. For those without the glasses, there were other ways to check it out like a pinhole projector, watching it on TV, or, for some in California, putting sunscreen in your eyes. Wait, what?

KRCR talked to Trish Patterson, a Nurse Practitioner at a Redding urgent care, about the types of patients they saw after the eclipse and, well, omfg!

So far, she said they haven’t had any patients with damage from looking at the eclipse, but they’ve had a few customers experience pain after they put sunscreen in their eye Monday since they did not have protective glasses.

“One of my colleagues at moonlight here stated yesterday that they had patients presenting at their clinic that put sunscreen on their eyeball, and presented that they were having pain and they were referred to an ophthalmologist,” Patterson said.

Most sunscreens come with a warning label directing people not to put it in their eyes – and now we know why.