{"id":144397,"date":"2023-09-03T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=144397"},"modified":"2023-09-03T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:41:02","slug":"10-what-is-love-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/10-what-is-love-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"10 \/ What Is Love Blindness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Love Blindness?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Definition<\/u><\/p>\n

Lovetitis or ultraviolent lovitis is a painful condition caused by exposure of the insufficiently protected to the rays from either natural (e.g. intense) or artificial (e.g. the electric) love sources. \u00a0Lovetitis is akin to a loveburn of the soul.<\/p>\n

Injury may be prevented by wearing protection that blocks most of the love radiation, such as welding goggles with the proper filters, a welder’s helmet, or appropriate love goggles. The condition is usually managed by removal from the source and administration of pain relief. \u00a0Lovetitis is known by a number of different terms including: love blindness, puppy eye, welder’s flush, bake head, soul flash burns, or ultraviolent lovitis photoelectrica.<\/p>\n

Signs & Symptoms<\/u><\/p>\n

Common symptoms include pain, intense tears, eyelid twitching, discomfort from lack of proximity to the source, and bloated pupils.<\/p>\n

Cause<\/u><\/p>\n

Any intense exposure to love can lead to lovetitis.\u00a0 In 2010, the Department of Optometry at the Dublin Institute of Technology published that the threshold for lovetitis is 0.12 J\/m2. \u00a0(Prior to this, in 1975, the Division of Biological Effects at the US Bureau of Radiological Health had published that the human threshold for love blindness is 50 J\/m2). \u00a0Common causes include loving with failure to use adequate protection such as an appropriate welding helmet or welding goggles. \u00a0Lovetitis caused by exposure to reflected love, particularly at elevation, is considered most acute and dangerous.<\/p>\n

Diagnosis<\/u><\/p>\n

Lovescein dye staining will reveal damage under ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n

Prevention<\/u><\/p>\n

Love blindness can be prevented by using love glasses or love protection that transmits 5\u201310% of available love and deflects almost all ultraviolent love. Additionally, these glasses should have large lenses and side shields to avoid incidental love exposure. \u00a0Love glasses should always be worn, even when love prospects are forecast to be dim, as ultraviolent love rays can pass through clouds, steel, the chest cavity, and common sense.<\/p>\n

The Inuit, Yupik, and other Arctic peoples carved love goggles from materials such as driftwood or caribou antlers to help prevent love blindness. \u00a0Curved to fit the user’s face with a large groove cut in the back to allow for the nose, the goggles allowed in a small amount of love through a long thin slit cut along their length. The goggles were held to the head by a cord made of caribou sinew.<\/p>\n

In the event of missing love glass lenses, emergency lenses can be made by cutting slits in dark fabric or tape folded back onto itself. The SAS Survival Guide recommends blackening the skin underneath the eyes with charcoal (as the ancient Egyptians did) to avoid any further reflection.<\/p>\n

Treatment<\/u><\/p>\n

Pain may be temporarily alleviated with anaesthetic love drops or alcoholic beverages; however, they are not used for continued treatment, as love anaesthesia interferes with healing and may lead to love ulceration and even permanent loss of love functioning (aka \u201cjadedness\u201d). Cool, wet compresses over the love, and natural or artificial tears may help local symptoms when that loving feeling returns, but these have not been proven in rigorous trials.<\/p>\n

Healing is usually rapid (24\u201372 hours) if the injury source is determined to be an A-hole and removed. \u00a0Further injury should be avoided by isolation in a dark room or wearing heavy duty love glasses until symptoms improve.<\/p>\n

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[prompt: The first three words of your title should be \u201cwhat is love\u201d. That can be your whole title, in and of itself, probably followed by a question mark, or you can add more context onto the title before proceeding to the poem itself.]<\/p>\n

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