Emergency Eye Care in Orland Park

Sudden eye problems need prompt attention

Eye pain, injury, redness, or sudden vision changes should not be ignored. Vision Source – Orland Park provides urgent eye care for many eye-related emergencies and medical eye concerns.

Call our office at (708) 460-2010 if you are experiencing an urgent eye problem.

Call us promptly for:

• Sudden vision loss or sudden vision changes
• New flashes, floaters, shadows, or a curtain in your vision
• Eye pain, light sensitivity, or a painful red eye
• Foreign body sensation, debris, metal, or glass on the surface of the eye
• Eye injury, scratch, puncture, or trauma
• Chemical exposure
• Contact lens–related pain, redness, or blurred vision
• Swelling around the eye or eyelid
• New double vision

Go directly to the emergency room for:

• Severe eye trauma
• An eye puncture, penetrating injury, or object that appears to enter the eye itself
• Significant bleeding
• Sudden vision loss with stroke-like symptoms
• Severe pain with nausea, vomiting, or halos around lights
• Chemical injury that cannot be flushed adequately

What to do right away

For chemical exposure, begin flushing the eye immediately with clean water or saline.

For debris or a foreign body sensation, do not rub the eye.

For an embedded object or puncture injury, do not press on the eye or try to remove the object.

For contact lens pain, remove the lens if possible and do not resume wear until the eye has been evaluated.

Urgent eye care close to home

Our doctors evaluate urgent eye symptoms using advanced diagnostic technology and can help determine whether treatment, monitoring, or referral is needed.

If you are unsure whether your symptoms are urgent, call our office.