How to get rid of foreign body in eye

logixoul

When I have the "something in my eye" feeling, my eyes get screen-strained much faster. The most effective removal method I've found is rinsing my eye directly under the tap water faucet. But my ophthalmologist says that's not safe to do. She suggests saline solution instead. But it doesn't help me as much.

Any good method to do it?

ensete

logixoul Don't run tap water over your eye, thats bad. If you need to flush your eyes out use an approved eye wash.

Alyosha2001

Most of the time for me it's an eyelash, so I use a mirror and pushig the eyelid to take it out.

Maxx

@ensete May I suggest very constructively that you would try to limit the instructive or commanding comments in general. If you think that tap water is bad, could you express it maybe "There is a study (link to the study), which found that using tap water to rinse the eyes is bad" Or "my eye doctor told me that tap water is bad for the eyes, because XYZ"

We are all here because of a serious problem that also generates a lot of stress and anxiety, so instructing people to do something or not do something and not giving any reason why, is just creating more stress.

There are multiple countries in the world where tap water is much better that bottled water and people have been swimming in fresh water lakes eyes open for a few hundred thousand years. So I doubt that tap water of good quality is that bad to the eyes. I don't think our eyes, who have the display issues are any more prone to getting problems from pure tap water than anybody else's as the problem is not in our eyes, but in the nervous system or brains.

Now I apologize that I'm now asking you to do or not do something, but at least I'm explaining why.

Business-Eyes

The beats method is filling a bowl big enough for you face with water, put you face in the water open eyes and like left then right. The water carries the foreign object out work every time I have tried it

seeker_of_no_light

Ever since I got my issues 12 years ago, tap water is irritating my eyes and makes them really dry afterwards. That's why I only shower with swimming goggles. But if I have something in my eye, I resort to these three methods:
1. I look in the mirror where the irritating object is which in my case is very often a loose eyelash, lubricate a q-tip with moisturizing eye drops, and very gently remove the object (usually works best if you can manage to get the object onto your eye lids through eye movement or closing your eye)
2. spam eye drops into your eye which aides in getting the object to move/flow towards your eye lids or surrounding area of your gland where it can be removed more easily
3. pour a freshly opened bottle of mineral water into your eye. This tends to also help me greatly during spring when pollen are in the air. However, this method fairly regularly results in my eye feeling irritated for a few minutes if I hadn't done it in a while.

einkuser

One method is to drape your upper eyelid over the lower. This enables you to remove gunk by rotating your eyeball over your lower eyelashes. Sounds stupid but it most definitely works.