Emergencies
What is an eye emergency?
The following require urgent attention.
- Sudden loss of vision
- Sudden distorted vision
- Curtain or shadow obscuring vision
- Flashing lights
- New floaters
- Pain
- Foreign body in the eye
- Corneal abrasion
- Red eye with pain
- Red eye with light sensitivity
- Sudden loss of side vision
- Sudden double vision that does not go away
- Sudden change in pupil size in one eye
- Sudden loss of colour vision
The following are less urgent but require attention
- Red eye and discharge with no pain, no light sensitivity and normal vision
- Watery, itchy eyes
- Lid infections such as styes or crusty lids
St Michael’s Hospital
30 Bond Street
Toronto Western Hospital
399 Bathurst Street
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Avenue
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Eye Health Reference Links
Call 416-968-2300 to book an eye exam or visit our clinic
