How do I get something out of my eye?
Help! My eye has been killing me all morning. It feels like I have a piece of dirt in my eyelid, and every time I blink it hurts. I've tried flushing it with water a number of times with no success. I also don't wear contacts so this whole area is icky and unfamiliar. Ideas?
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Get some anesthetic eyedrops in the immediate future, keep flushing.
Kelly says "Go to the emergency room." You don't want to mess around with it. It might scratch your cornea. Or it might already have.
what peggylou said. Move it!
get an eye-cup from the drug store that you can use to bathe your eye in hot water rather than running water over it. If that doesn't work, you're better off getting a last-minute appointment with an opthamologist than sitting for hours in an emergency room.
Update: I did get a last minute appointment with an opthamologist who picked out a large particle... Strangely it felt like it was still there until the next day. Am feeling better, thanks all :)
Whew; lucky that you got to doc before theevening or during a week-end. Then it would have had to be the ER. Often,when cornea is irritated, it takes a while to calm down, even after particle has been removed.
Pull your top eye-lid (grab eyelashes) out & down over your bottom eyelid
Ditto Ma-goo
works everytime
Yeah, the doctor actually did that eye-lid grab and made it work. Though it didn't seem to help on my own.
blink or have someone lick your eye. someone you trust not to have herpes. seriously, it totally works. I do it for a living. seriously, I don't do it for a living but that's what a lot of Indian moms do
Try sticking a knife in it.
i was ready to scratch my eye out. pull the top lid below the bottom lid and hold it for a few seconds while you move your eyeball around….immediate relief!
@ben things can feel like they are still in your eye after they are out because of minor damage to the surface of the eye. I once got a small piece of metal in my eye that had to be removed by an ophthalmologist. It took several days of healing after the removal for my eye to feel like it didn’t have anything in it again.
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