A Woman Fractured Her Eye Socket By Blowing Her Nose
Her doctor had never seen anything like it.
Jamie Ducharme July 05, 2018
About a year ago, a 36-year-old woman entered London’s North Middlesex University Hospital experiencing all of the telltale signs of a fist-fight. She was bleeding from the nose, complaining of vision loss and experiencing swelling and extreme pain on the left side of her face, according to a recent case report published in The BMJ. Her symptoms all pointed to an eye socket fracture—what’s called an orbital blowout fracture, an injury typically sustained from punches or other facial trauma.
But all this woman had done was blow her nose.
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