How long does it take for corneal damage to recover

Corneal injury can be recovered after a long time, mainly and the extent of the injury, whether active treatment and other factors related.

If only shallow corneal injury, such as wearing contact lenses accidentally abraded cornea, or rub eyes too hard caused corneal injury, this situation generally can be recovered in about 1-2 days, if the damage range is relatively large, usually can recover in about 3-4 days.

If the injury to the corneal stroma or symptoms are relatively serious can not recover, then under the guidance of a doctor active treatment, most patients in the standard treatment after 2-4 weeks can basically recover.

If direct damage to the corneal endothelium or corneal perforation phenomenon, you need to use surgical treatment, may take half a year or longer to recover.