What do you do about something in eye?

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Try flypaper.

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Most of the time, if ignored, it will come out by itself. I dunno how
clean the water in your average water bottle is, certainly not sterile.

<[email hidden]> wrote:Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have never had anything in my eye that did not clear up by just blinking
and eyelid pulling (a technique my mother taught me,) EXCEPT from
carelessness while doing shop work. If you try to prepare for every
possible problem, you would have to carry a large first aid kit, extra water
and food, a thermal blanket, a flare gun, cell phone, of course, and what
have I missed? Duct tape, tie wraps, a large number of tools, extra tires
and tubes and so on, ad infinitum.

It is possible to ride with one eye closed.

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Yes, that should be fine. Eye wash is just slightly salty water anyway.
If you don't have any water then think of something sad.

me said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in your eye could in
essence disable you from getting home. No?

I once took a tiny metal particle (yes, in a workshop) out of my eye with
the sticky edge of a piece of cigarette paper.

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

/s

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?
Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
crawling around under my convertible.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
that.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Scott Gordo said:

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

That's ridiculous. Just spray some WD-40 on a rag, wipe eye, dribble on
some White Lightning in socket, dab up extra and use on cleats, and THEN go
ride.

Clean, clear and quiet.

/b

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/s

ahhhh, andrew muzi had a splinter or cut.
everyone wears $150+ sunglasses or yorktowne optical clipons.
local pharmacy has saline eyewash for after waterbottle. like tears
but medicinal, copious.
as for the beatles, yawl have seen ratha large beetles, yes? and
horseflies, white faced wasps, thrown 2B at 45 mph plus yawl oncoming
at 11.5 or so, thrown nitric acid, BIRD [censored]!....

then there's google search, yawl herd of this, no?

http://www.google.com/search?q=eye+first+aid&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGLJ

- delete ignoirance -

read this

http://books.google.com/books?um=1&q=wilderness+first+aid&btnG=Search+Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=3kNEq6fWHtkC&pg=PA324&dq=mountaineering+first+aid&ei=FBcdR7a0KYiS7gKuh9mTBQ&sig=ZgSeXOFsyr7v9p8Hl0o_trleF4Q

Per vey:

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Quoted message said:

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

I carry water in old GatorAde bottles that have a top that will
squirt a stream. I don't leave them full overnight, and I
Clorox them periodically.

When I'm surfing, they're handy for flushing out a folded
contact.

When riding I just wear glasses and I've only had one episode of
something in my eye and that was just a couple weeks ago and it
was *bad*.....

Totally disabled from riding and hardly able to stand - almost
rode into the brush.

Tried a little flushing, but I think what got it out mostly was
keeping the eye closed for about fifteen minutes.

Dunno what happens with it closed, but somehow things seem to get
flushed out.
--
PeteCresswell

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:35:33 -0500, A Muzi <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?
Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
crawling around under my convertible.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
that.

Dear Andrew,

Well, road flints can pierce things besides tires . . .

"In that same stage 9 [1920 Tour de France] the epic suffering of
Honore Bathelemy started when he had a hard crash. His back was so
badly hurt he had to turn his handlebars up so that he didn't have to
bend over as far. Yet that wasn't the worst of the crash. A road flint
had pierced and rined one eye. He was not only bleeding and beat up,
he was now half blind. Unstoppable, he removed the flint, re-mounted
his bike and finished the stage. We're not done with Honore yet. . .
.."

"Honore Barthelemy (who lost his eye on stage 9) finished the Tour.
His eighth place made him the best-placed Frenchman in a sea of
Belgians. He crashed several more times after his terrible fall in
stage 9. In addition to losing an eye and ruining his back and being
cut, brusied and bleeding, the later falls added a broken wrist and a
dislocated shoulder to his suffering. The fans, moved by his courage,
carried him after he crossed the finish line. He later replaced the
blinded eye with a glass eye, which he would occasionally lose during
bike races."

"The Story of the Tour de France," p. 57-58

According to the book, Honore Barthelemy finished third in the 1921
Tour, abandoned the 1922 Tour after several crashes, rode again in
1923, and showed up again in 1925.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Barth%C3%A9lemy

Sounds like a fellow to keep an eye out for.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

- illuminate text -

did the Honore have children?

clorox? walmart 91% isopropyl CHOH - please reuse.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?
Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?
Or just not worry abt carrying anything?
Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Quoted message said:

A Muzi said:

In 1988 I planned a quick overnight trip to Boston and spent the day
before prepping my car. I ended up with some rust/crud in one eye from
crawling around under my convertible.
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/1965.jpg
It was a painful trip. Never had anything else like it before or since
in many years of cycling and wrenching. If it seems likely to you,
perhaps glasses or parachute goggles would be a better approach?
Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
that.

Quoted message said:

Well, road flints can pierce things besides tires . . .
"In that same stage 9 [1920 Tour de France] the epic suffering of
Honore Bathelemy started when he had a hard crash. His back was so
badly hurt he had to turn his handlebars up so that he didn't have to
bend over as far. Yet that wasn't the worst of the crash. A road flint
had pierced and rined one eye. He was not only bleeding and beat up,
he was now half blind. Unstoppable, he removed the flint, re-mounted
his bike and finished the stage. We're not done with Honore yet. . .
."
"Honore Barthelemy (who lost his eye on stage 9) finished the Tour.
His eighth place made him the best-placed Frenchman in a sea of
Belgians. He crashed several more times after his terrible fall in
stage 9. In addition to losing an eye and ruining his back and being
cut, brusied and bleeding, the later falls added a broken wrist and a
dislocated shoulder to his suffering. The fans, moved by his courage,
carried him after he crossed the finish line. He later replaced the
blinded eye with a glass eye, which he would occasionally lose during
bike races."
"The Story of the Tour de France," p. 57-58
According to the book, Honore Barthelemy finished third in the 1921
Tour, abandoned the 1922 Tour after several crashes, rode again in
1923, and showed up again in 1925.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Barth%C3%A9lemy
Sounds like a fellow to keep an eye out for.

Wow.
And I always thought Tazio Nuvolari was tough for winning at Monza on a
motorcycle with 2 broken legs. Bloody luxury!
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

faster still on the wings of heaven

In article <[email hidden]>,

A Muzi said:

Motorcyclists speak of junebug-in-eye-at-speed syndrome but that seems
always to be 'a guy who knows a guy...' I don't know anyone who suffered
that.

I've gotten junebug in the forehead at 40+ mph on a bicycle.

_ Booker C. Bense

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Do you carry eye wash and eye cup?

Or just squirt water form water bottle in eye to was
debris from it?

Or juts not worry abt carrying anything?

Just seems to me that on a long ride...something in
your eye could in essence disable you from getting
home. No?

Scott Gordo said:

Remove eye, place in wide mouth Pepsi bottle with 2" of Oranj Peelz
degreaser. Shake vigorously until eye is clean. Then, apply a light
lube, reinsert into socket, and on your bike!

Coke bottles work better. Just sayin'...

\\paul