A 62-year-old man with no medical or ophthalmic history presented to the Lahey Clinic ophthalmology department with a red, painful right eye and decreased vision for 10 days after foreign body injury.
The injury occurred while performing construction work on a water-damaged ceiling and involved wood debris falling into the patient’s right eye. The eye was immediately irrigated with sterile saline. The patient was seen by an outside ophthalmologist 2 days after the injury and was prescribed topical loteprednol and topical ciprofloxacin; however, only loteprednol was administered by the
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