{"id":738732,"date":"2026-08-15T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738732\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:32:12","slug":"did-the-eclipse-damage-your-eyes-a-surgeon-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738732\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the eclipse damage your eyes? A surgeon explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eye surgeon says that fewer people have been seeking treatment for eye damage than after the UK&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}