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To think your eyes/eyeballs aren’t self cleaning?

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HumourMeThis · 28/11/2025 21:10

I’m not sure how it came up in conversation but me and DH were rocking about showering/cleaning and DH mentioned he doesn’t open his eyes in the shower much. I asked how he cleans his eyeballs and he looked confused. Turns out he doesn’t wash his eyeballs at all. He closes his eyes and washes his face but not his actual eyes?

AIBU to tell him his eyes don’t clean themselves and he needs to open his eyes and rinse them with the shower?

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FrankLeeInsane · 28/11/2025 21:39

Oh, this is a wonderful thread. I needed a laugh. Well done OP, you cheered me right up with visions of eye socket swilling.

TheMorgenmuffel · 28/11/2025 21:39

Ask your optician next time you have an appointment

I just googled and the advice is to not wash them routinely and that they should only be 'washed' if medically necessary. Eg something in your eye and it should be a sterile eye bath, never tap water.

Musicmummy63 · 28/11/2025 21:39

How can this possibly work? To really get them clean you need to pop them right out , only then can you get the backs clean.

BigGra · 28/11/2025 21:39

Eating apple pips will not cause a tree to grow in your stomach

Staring at a TV screen will not give you square eyes

Sitting on a cold wall will not give you a kidney infection

Not washing your eyeballs does not cause eye infections

HTH

LighthouseLED · 28/11/2025 21:38

murasaki · 28/11/2025 21:37

Christ, there's more than one of you?

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Let’s hope they’re both from the same family

Chemenger · 28/11/2025 21:38

leafygreensies · 28/11/2025 21:37

Coming from a family of eyeball washers - these replies have baffled me! Bet none of you lot wash in your belly button or ears either 🤢🤢

OP, your sister’s here!

ImThePr0blem · 28/11/2025 21:38

murasaki · 28/11/2025 21:37

Christ, there's more than one of you?

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😂

Duckishness · 28/11/2025 21:38

I need to go wash my eyes as not sure I read this correctly.

😳 <— big open eye balls in the shower

WTAF

murasaki · 28/11/2025 21:37

leafygreensies · 28/11/2025 21:37

Coming from a family of eyeball washers - these replies have baffled me! Bet none of you lot wash in your belly button or ears either 🤢🤢

Christ, there's more than one of you?

littleorangefox · 28/11/2025 21:37

FatCatPyjamas · 28/11/2025 21:12

I lick mine like a gecko like all normal people.

I never thought of this.

I give mine a quick once over with my toothbrush. Fresh.

leafygreensies · 28/11/2025 21:37

Coming from a family of eyeball washers - these replies have baffled me! Bet none of you lot wash in your belly button or ears either 🤢🤢

Palourdes · 28/11/2025 21:37

NannyOggsScones · 28/11/2025 21:36

You’ve made me laugh so much OP that tears have come out of my eyes effectively giving them a wash - thank you

Perhaps this is the OP’s mission.

notallwhowanderare · 28/11/2025 21:36

It is obviously a troll joke post, but I am worried someone might read this lunacy and try it.

I dont generally report posts, so instead just wanted to make it really really clear that this is not safe, and nobody does this.

PenCreed · 28/11/2025 21:36

I had to have a foreign body removed from my eye this year. At no point did the ophthalmologist tell me I should wash my eyeballs or ask why I wasn’t doing so! I was told not to wear contacts and to put an antibiotic gel in my eye for a week. Putting non-sterile water in my eyes would just be stupid.

NannyOggsScones · 28/11/2025 21:36

You’ve made me laugh so much OP that tears have come out of my eyes effectively giving them a wash - thank you

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HumourMeThis · 28/11/2025 21:35

MrsHamlet · 28/11/2025 21:33

Meanwhile, those of us who wear contact lenses know you never ever ever use tap water on your lenses because of the risk of infection.

In a glasses (and occasion contact lense) wearer and obviously I know not to wear my contacts while swimming or showering, but that’s because the contact lenses can get water trapped behind them and some rare bugs in the water can eat away at your eyes. Rinsing your eyes in the shower isn’t the same as bathing them for longer periods in a contact lense.

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BedlingtonLint · 28/11/2025 21:35

HumourMeThis · 28/11/2025 21:22

I’ve never once had an eye infection or conjunctivitis while DH has, it might be controversial maybe but it obviously works.

I’ve never had those things either and I don’t wash my eyes because I’m not a lunatic. But I think you’re on the wind-up anyway.

Akela64 · 28/11/2025 21:35

😂😂😂

BatshitOutofHell · 28/11/2025 21:35

pinksheetss · 28/11/2025 21:34

Gotta be a troll

Got to be. For a minute I thought I'd been hacked and that someone was messing with the Mumsnet website.

murasaki · 28/11/2025 21:35

Have you tried feeding a really thin tube with holes in it through one ear and out of the other, then pouring water one end so it came out of the holes? That'd rinse the inside of your head out well. You could add some bleach, just to be sure.

notallwhowanderare · 28/11/2025 21:35

HumourMeThis · 28/11/2025 21:31

You just rinse them, open eyes while looking up a bit into the shower and kinda look around a bit to give them a good rinse. I’m not like holding the shower head into my eyeballs like a lunatic. You just rinse them gentle by looking up.

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No.

Elsvieta · 28/11/2025 21:35

Gawd, after reading that I'm wishing I had something to wash my brain. Is it even possible to keep your eyes open when something's spraying into them?

Nobody else does this, OP, and we don't all have eye infections. Perhaps you should conclude, therefore, that what you were told is not correct?

Offloadontome · 28/11/2025 21:34

What the actual fuck 😂 nobody cleans their eyeballs! Why on earth would you need to do that??

SecretSquirrelLoo · 28/11/2025 21:34

This is a really bad idea. If you have to wash close to the eye, you should use cooled boiled water.

pinksheetss · 28/11/2025 21:34

Gotta be a troll

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