Staff from an eye clinic have said that fortunately there have not been many patients coming in with retinal eye damage after the eclipse.
But they have had customers coming in for treatment of eye pain caused by the application of sunscreen on their eyeballs.
These patients told staff that they applied sunscreen to their eyes because they did not have any protective glasses to view the eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21.
Solar eclipse watchers were ecstatic as the clouds broke minutes before totality during the total solar eclipse. One of the last vantage points where totality was visible on Aug. 21, 2017, in Isle of Palms, S.C. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
