>I've had arc eye from welding and you certainly know about it.  I
>would say "irritated and sandy feeling" is an huge understatement,
>it felt like someone was grit blasting the back of my eyeballs and
>I had to go to the local eye hospital to get my eyes anesthetised
>in the middle of the night. Needless to say I am somewhat more
>carefull when welding these days.

<grin> if that is all you had to do then you were lucky. One colleague of
mine at a place of past employment happened to be looking straight at an arc
welder, just as he struck the arc. The hospital insisted on putting him
through a series of tests for STD as these can apparently produce very
similar symptoms, despite his being emphatic about the cause of his eye
problem.

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