OKHMATDYT surgeons successfully operated on a 4-year-old boy who had been bitten in the eye by a dog
During the surgery, his upper and lower eyelids were sutured.
A family from Stryi, Lviv region. Andriy is 4 years old. When he was playing in the yard near his house, he ran to the pet dog that was nearby. Andrii started petting the animal and probably touched the dog’s ear when it bit him in the eye. The boy’s mother heard her son crying loudly, ran to the boy and saw that his face was covered in blood.
“I couldn’t even see where the bite was because everything was covered in blood. Out of panic and fear, I forgot the emergency number. I ran to the neighbours and they called,” said the child’s mother.
The child was hospitalised at a local hospital and then transferred to the OKHMATDYT Children’s Medicine Centre. After the examination, the doctors decided to operate on the child in an emergency.
“The dog bite was deep. All the layers of the upper and lower eyelid were damaged, including the muscle layer, but we managed to restore everything completely.
The operation was successful. During the surgery, the upper and lower eyelids of his eye were sutured.
Luckily, the dog did not hit the eye itself. The dog’s vision is preserved. We wish Andriy a speedy recovery and good health!” said Ihor Gulavsky, head of the Emergency and Minimally Invasive Surgery Clinic, surgeon.
The surgical team: Head of the Emergency and Minimally Invasive Surgery Clinic, surgeon Ihor Gulavsky, ophthalmologists Myroslava Khandiy and Vsevolod Radomsky, and anaesthetist Yulia Balashuk.
The boy has already been discharged from the hospital. In the future, the child will be under medical supervision to assess the formation of a postoperative scar.