UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I know how much you all love a bit of research on this site
and i have been doing some of my own.

I have found out that since my graft only my ungrafted eye waters when i cut up onions, i have put it to the test loads of time s now and i am now willing to share my findings

has this happended to anyone else or am i the only freak!!!

My lens eye doesn't water, the other eye waters and hurts. Also very reactive to smoke, I almost set fire to the place involving a towel and my microwave [don't ask] and the smoke blinded me [and set off my asthma]. Which reminds me, never let me toast a teacake for you because it always catches fire, even when I watch it. I'll get me coat....

Hehe I haven't really noticed anything much with onions but I am now allergic to Systane in my grafted eye with my itching and red. I need to have preservative free vials now when I didn't before!!

Hehe isn't it funny how we notice differences since having a graft!!!

Hehe this post being KC related should be moved into the discussion forum really but I've lost how to do it again!!!:roll:

I find my sight improves if I eat chocolate and I'd like to start clinical trials, and the Snellen chart would have bars of choccie instead of letters....

Yes Ken I can see, Mars, Bounty, Dairymilk, Cream Egg...

I solved the problem of cutting up onions long ago:

1 You get the onions you want chopped, grated or sliced. DO NOT PEEL THEM

2 Place them in a bowl of water.

3 Say to your wife (or husband) "If you have a minute could you grate, slice or chop the onions?"

4 Stay out of the kitchen while this is being done.

5 when the procedure is complete say "thank you" to the onion chopper and carry on with the recipe.

Andrew

Anne

Its due to the imparied sensitivity into\on the graft tissue.

I can post up the reasons and data but itll only bore ya!

But I have the same (not that I cut onions often! )

J

Yes i would find the data boring, good to see you are getting to know me so well

So if i had my left eye grafted would that mean my eyes wouldn't water when i cut up onions!!!!
Just another bonus of having a graft

Id suspect that it may be less. But when the onion haze et gets into the eye the other parts would naturally cause tears...maybe not as much

The problem with onion juice is that it combines with tears and forms mild supphuric acid on the eye. The pain response makes your eye water so that the acid is diluted and washed away.

The grafted eye is less senstive than the other, so the diluting effect of tears is not so readily provoked. This is not a good thing, at all.

Andrew

The other solution to the onion-chopping problem is to buy bags of frozen pre-chopped ones from Iceland