• Question: Can someones eye ever pop out? do they die when it does?

    Asked by emmagrace to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Yes it can pop out if the muscles around the eye are torn, they should be able to survive this happening though depending on why it happend in the frst place

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      The eye would survive, as long as the optical nerve and supporting tissue is not destroyed. The optic nerve is very fragile, so if the eye came out, chances are that what caused it to come out would also have damaged the nerve.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      In most cases it probably wouldn’t kill you, but in some cases, if the event is particularly traumatic then the actual shock of it happening could kill you.

      Extreme pressure can make your eyes pop out I think and some people can make their eyes pop out a little bit and then back in again (it’s pretty freaky though, I would not recommend you tubing that one!)

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Yes, it can pop out if the muscles that support the eye in the orbit are damaged.

      Depending on how it happened, you wouldn’t necessarily die, but you would have to have surgery and lots of recovery. As Derek mentioned, it is likely that you would damage the optic nerve if the eyeball came out of the socket, which would affect your sight.

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