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Ocular injury with xylene - a report of two cases

Registrar in Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Gwent- NP9 4SZ

1 Xylene is a hydrocarbon solvent found in various industrial preparations such as paint and is widely used in pathology laboratories.

2 When inadvertently instilled into the eye significant ocular injury can occur with the potential for blindness.

3 Such injuries to the ocular surface resemble those due to alkali.

4 Ocular surface injury due to xylene has not been reported previously in the literature. We strongly recommend that these injuries be treated as emergen cies in a similar way to alkali burns in the Eye department since the chemical mixture of which xylene forms a part may be alkaline. Such an approach is vital in order to save sight.

Key Words: xylene • ocular injury • topical steroids

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 16, No. 5, 273-275 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/096032719701600507


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