• Plethora

  There is a plethora of solar eclipse glasses available on Amazon and other online retailers. These glasses are specially designed to block UV light from entering the eye while looking up at an eclipse. [ranker.com]

• Military Personnel

  One definite case of a partial solar eclipse causing blindness happened on February 4, 1962, with military personnel in Hawaii. [abc.net.au]

• Unconsciousness

  The very central point of dreams is to make us aware of all aspects of ourselves and our lives; enlightenment and integration of unconscious and conscious components take time and desire. [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

• Macula

  The light rays of the sun are strong enough to burn your macula. The macula is the most sensitive portion of your retina. Sun damage can permanently destroy your central vision. This condition is called solar retinopathy. [retinaeyedoctor.com]

  Although the macula is very important to our eyesight, it's still only responsible for one part of vision. "You won't go completely blind from damage to the macula, since you'd still have your peripheral vision," Schuman tells BuzzFeed Health. [buzzfeed.com]

  A: Staring at the sun for even a short time without wearing the right eye protection can damage the macula, which is responsible for our fine vision. [mystatesman.com]

• Retinal Damage

  The sun can be bright enough to cause retinal damage." If you buy eclipse glasses, be sure that they are made by one of the 12 companies the American Astronomical Society has certified as safe for use. [usatoday.com]

  The sun can be bright enough to cause retinal damage." If, like most of us, you don’t have access to a welder’s mask, experts agree that the best way to protect your peepers is with a pair of eclipse goggles. [southernliving.com]

  […] primary signs of retinal damage are visual disturbances, and they aren't always associated with pain, the experts say. [buzzfeed.com]

  But this lack of pain receptors also means that if you were one of the many, many people Googling “my eyes hurt” yesterday, you don’t necessarily have retinal damage. [popsci.com]

• Snow Blindness

  Solar retinopathy is NOT the same as “snow blindness.” Snow blindness, also known as photokeratitis, is essentially a sunburn of the cornea (outer layer of eye) and is usually self-resolving (though extremely painful). [tetonhospital.org]

  Snow blindness is a temporary condition resulting from a burn of the cornea caused by the reflection of sunlight on snow. Night blindness results from a deficiency of vitamin A. See eye eye, organ of vision and light perception. [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

  Photokeratitis is also known as snow blindness or welder’s keratitis. If a new welder forgets to put on their helmet before using the welding torch, they get the same injury, and coders may have assigned the below. [3mhisinsideangle.com]

• Scotoma

  Help prevent solar blindness and learn how to watch safely Signs and Symptoms Signs of eclipse retinopathy include: Reduced visual acuity (bad vision), Central scotomas (blind spots), Chromatopsia (disruption or tinting of color perception), Metamorphosia [tetonhospital.org]

  In fact, Sir Isaac Newton seems to have suffered a mild scotoma at age 22 while looking at the Sun. [aty.sdsu.edu]

• Retinal Lesion

  The far-right image shows an eye with several photochemical retinal lesions. The irregular pale "smudge" above and left of the fovea, plus the three smaller pale areas at the arrowheads, are the remnants of the photochemical injuries to that eye. [space.com]

  This suggests that, at low latitudes, staring at the Sun for the full 20 minutes before sunset might be marginally enough to produce a threshold photochemical retinal lesion in an average eye. [aty.sdsu.edu]

• Central Scotoma

  Help prevent solar blindness and learn how to watch safely Signs and Symptoms Signs of eclipse retinopathy include: Reduced visual acuity (bad vision), Central scotomas (blind spots), Chromatopsia (disruption or tinting of color perception), Metamorphosia [tetonhospital.org]

• Suggestibility

  Experts suggests that one widely available filter for safe solar viewing is number 14 welder's glass. [usatoday.com]

  They suggest that you try to avoid looking directly at many—or, if you can avoid it, any—of the more than 10,000 online articles expected to be dedicated to what is, at the end of the day, just the moon going in front of the sun. [cbc.ca]

  Symptoms that suggest short-term damage include eye pain and light sensitivity, often occurring within 24 hours of exposure, Linda Chous, an ophthalmologist and chief eye care officer for UnitedHealthcare, told NBC. [news.vice.com]

  Safe eclipse viewing Research also suggests that while a lot of the damage may heal, some may be permanent. One 1995 study followed 58 patients who sustained eye damage after viewing a 1976 eclipse in Turkey. [livescience.com]

  A: The American Academy of Ophthalmology website suggests that, "There is only one safe way to look directly at the sun," whether during an eclipse or not: through special-purpose solar filters. [mystatesman.com]

• Forgetful

  But definitely don't forget to take off your solar eclipse glasses during totality, when the sun is 100 percent covered by the moon. In fact, if you don't remove your solar filters during totality, you won't be able to see anything at all. [space.com]

  If a new welder forgets to put on their helmet before using the welding torch, they get the same injury, and coders may have assigned the below. [3mhisinsideangle.com]

  […] have eclipse glasses, be smart & watch it on tv — Kevin art (@kevincovfefe) August 21, 2017 You could use a blank piece of paper to track the location of the sun’s reflection so you can avoid it, but, again, if you’re not careful it would be easy to forget [inverse.com]

• Irritability

  UV light breaks through the cornea and causes inflammation, tearing, and irritation almost immediately. These symptoms are temporary if you avert your eyes from the Sun within moments. [ranker.com]

  Finally, he stared at the Sun “as long as the eyes could bear without excessive irritation.” You could hardly devise conditions more likely to damage the retina photochemically if you tried! [aty.sdsu.edu]

• Burning Sensation

  Experts warn that staring into a solar eclipse for any amount of time — even just a few seconds — could result in permanent blurry vision or blindness because the dark moon passing over the sun essentially cancels out the normal burning sensation that [news.vice.com]

• Chlamydia

  Blindness caused by infectious diseases, such as trachoma trachoma, infection of the mucous membrane of the eyelids caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Trachoma affects at least 86 million people worldwide. An estimated 1. ..... [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

• Chlamydia Trachomatis

  Blindness caused by infectious diseases, such as trachoma trachoma, infection of the mucous membrane of the eyelids caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Trachoma affects at least 86 million people worldwide. An estimated 1. ..... [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

• Central Scotoma

  Help prevent solar blindness and learn how to watch safely Signs and Symptoms Signs of eclipse retinopathy include: Reduced visual acuity (bad vision), Central scotomas (blind spots), Chromatopsia (disruption or tinting of color perception), Metamorphosia [tetonhospital.org]

Treatment If you think someone has damaged their eyes by looking at the sun: STOP looking directly at the sun. Go indoors, preferably into a dark room and rest your eyes. There is no effective medical treatment for solar retinopathy. [tetonhospital.org]

And when it comes to treatment, there really aren't any options. [space.com]

There is no cure or treatment for solar retinopathy. [whittenlasereye.com]

There’s no treatment, as the suns rays have essentially damaged your retina at the cellular level. Will sunglasses help? Apparently, sunglasses won’t help heal your eyes. [nationalpost.com]

“Unfortunately there’s not a treatment for it, so once that damage is done you have to wait and hopefully things improve and your body can heal some, but a lot of the damage can be permanent.” It’s a lesson Tomososki wishes he knew back in 1963. [myfox8.com]

Unfortunately, the prognosis for these patients is nearly impossible to determine. "You just sort of end up having to wait it out, and that's the really unfortunate part about it," Chou said. [space.com]

Can Early and late visual prognosis in solar retinopathy Graefe's Archiv Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol. 233, 801-804 (1995) found that about half the victims recovered completely in a few months. [aty.sdsu.edu]

Solar retinopathy damages or even destroys cells in the back of the eye–the retina–that transmit what you see in your brain, according to eye health and safety organization Prevent Blindness. [thedcapage.blog]

Most infectious diseases of the eye can be prevented or cured. [encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com]

That said, Ranamazzazzi acknowledges people will be tempted to check in with their friends, so prior steps must be taken, and that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. "I understand it's 2017. [cbc.ca]

Help prevent solar blindness and learn how to watch safely Signs and Symptoms Signs of eclipse retinopathy include: Reduced visual acuity (bad vision), Central scotomas (blind spots), Chromatopsia (disruption or tinting of color perception), Metamorphosia [tetonhospital.org]