What are symptoms and signs of a subconjunctival hemorrhage?
Most of the time, no symptoms are associated with a subconjunctival hemorrhage other than seeing blood over the white part of the eye. • Very rarely people experience pain when the hemorrhage begins. When the bleeding first occurs, you may notice a sense of fullness in the eye or under the lid. As the hemorrhage resolves, some people may feel very mild irritation of the eye or merely a sense of awareness of the eye. • The hemorrhage itself is an obvious, sharply outlined bright red area overlying the sclera. The entire white part of the eye may occasionally be covered by blood. • In a spontaneous subconjunctival hemorrhage, no blood will exit from the eye. If you blot the eye with a tissue, there should be no blood on the tissue. • The hemorrhage will appear larger within the first 24 hours after its onset and then will slowly decrease in size as the blood is absorbed. Call your ophthalmologist (a medical doctor who specializes in eye care and surgery) if the subconjunctival hemorrhage
