People from across the region may have found themselves gazing into the sky Monday — in hopes to have a glimpse of the solar eclipse.

“It was perfect,” said Highlands Health Nurse, Colleen Stewart-Tretter. “The totality lasted for over 4 minutes.”

Days following many of us like Stewart-Tretter are still thinking about that experience — some however with concern of eye injury.

“So because of the solar eclipse people can sustain permanent eye damage from it if they were viewing the sun without any protection from lenses or if they were not using the adequate ones that had the ISO indicator on them,” Stewart-Tretter added.

“Once you damage your retina, that’s it,” said Francine Glass, another Nurse with Highlands Health. “You know so to be on the safe side it’s probably best just to watch it on television.”

The nurses tell Channel 6 some symptoms of any damage to your eye could be blurred vision, headaches, color distortion, blind spots or watery eyes.

“If they were viewing the sun with protected lenses then have a headache you know or a little bit of watery eyes, I wouldn’t be concerned, but if they were viewing the sun without proper protection and had any of those symptoms like a blind spot then they should seek medical attention immediately,” Stewart-Tretter said.

If you did use the proper protection for your eyes and are still concerned, Glass remind the public its also allergy season, “So it could be just a coincidence that you have watery eyes just because they did view the sun and they did use protective eye wear.”

Again if you have any concerns it is best to go see your doctor.