{"id":81487,"date":"2026-08-14T03:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/did-the-eclipse-damage-your-eyes-a-surgeon-explains\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:50:34","slug":"did-the-eclipse-damage-your-eyes-a-surgeon-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/did-the-eclipse-damage-your-eyes-a-surgeon-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the eclipse damage your eyes? A surgeon explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An eye surgeon says that fewer people have been seeking treatment for eye damage than after the UK&#8217;s last total solar eclipse in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions across the UK on Wednesday witnessed the most significant solar eclipse in 27 years &#8211; which saw more than 90% of the Sun covered by the Moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC, Mr Alexander Ionides from Moorfield Eye Hospital said hospitals were &#8220;inundated&#8221; with worried patients in 1999, but said it seemed warnings about looking directly at the sun with the naked eye were &#8220;getting through&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that symptoms of eye damage can include a spot in the centre of your vision, which may appear grey or yellow. Symptoms can develop within hours, but sometimes take days to develop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cy452z5j1x1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eye surgeon says that fewer people have been seeking treatment for eye damage than after the UK&#8217;s last total solar eclipse in 1999. Millions across the UK on Wednesday witnessed the most significant solar eclipse in 27 years &#8211; which saw more than 90% of the Sun covered by the Moon. Speaking to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[1233,9113,2920,7263,6395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81489,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81487\/revisions\/81489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}