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

Are you taking the piss OP?!

I cannot get over how you think this is normal. Standing under shower head washing your eyes out. Are you okay or on medication? You seem very gullible. Possibly vulnerable, i think.

Think someone was playing a joke on you and you fell for it.

You're not supposed to wash your eyeballs, just the outside skin around them and you can use a cotton pad with water to clean the gunk from your eyelids and corners.
Maybe the op is confused as eyes are self cleaning, tears literally produce a saline solution to wash gunk out.

I had to wash my eye this morning, I somehow managed to flick a bit of toothpaste in it.

Surely you're joking, OP? I'd imagine you're much more likely to get an infection from putting unsterilised water in your eye.

I work in an opticians. This is not a thing. If anything, we would recommend that you use comfort drops or gel recommended by an optician if you have dry eyes. We would never recommend washing your eyeballs like the rest of your body. Eyes are very sensitive and you only have one pair! Water has bacteria in it that is harmful to the eye…..think acanthamoeba! Look it up if you don’t understand.

This has to be a mickey take…nobody can be that stupid to wash their eyeballs in shower water…..

The body produces natural tears, that’s what tear ducts are for, and the more you blink, the more your eyes are looked after. When you get older, menopausal women for example, you need artificial tears to help, especially in dry atmospheres.

It’s like the same false information regarding contact lenses getting lost behind the eye…..not possible….again go and research it….🙄

This thread cheered me up OP. 🤣❤️

so fed up of other threads of bullying, goading and “meangirl-ness” (yes I made up a word).

Hi OP,
I read the first few posts, laughing my face off, thinking what crazy business is this 😂
Then I switched to only seeing your posts (cos I'm knackered) and read that your parents (bless them) taught you to do this. So, I felt sorry for you/confused at their extreme hygiene standards/amazed that you kept it up!
A few of your posts further, I noticed the puns...I love a good pun, especially when it's from someone who has come to realise that they are maybe not quite as 'normal' (whatever that means) as they thought! 👊🤗
You're a good'un! 😍

lol 😂 if I get something in my eye or my eye is irritated I might use cooled boiled water , eyedrops or eye bath .
i never open my eyes under the shower

How do you think hedgehogs wash their eyes ?

It is so unusual it comes under the heading of 'Batshittery'.

Stop washing your eyeballs fgs. Water from pipes is loaded with bacteria and fungi. Even if you only used boiled and cooled water to wash your eyeballs, you wouldn't be doing them a favour.

Like the vagina, eyeballs are self cleaning. Your eyes are continuously producing perfectly balanced saline fluid, and if yours don't do this, it's because you've damaged them by washing them.

I'm surprised you haven't gone blind. It's amazing how this claptrap clings on.

Sorry but what?? The reason for blinking is to keep eyes moist and to flush grime and grit from the eyes. The tear ducts are there to naturally help clear the eyes along with blinking/tears. Eyeballs do not need “cleaning” it makes me think along the lines of douching which is also not necessary.

Me too! Brillo pads are good too

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Definitely don't get shower water in your eyes. I got a bad infection because I washed my face and got shower water in my eyes. I ended up with a ulcer and now permanently have scar tissue and a small black dot at the edge of my sight. Apparently it's quite common as shower water has a type of bacteria in. I noticed the small white dot and my eyes felt dry so I went to the opticians who rang the hospital while I was sitting there and I had to go straight to the hospital.

Look up acanthomeoba it's an ameoba that lives in tap water and if you have the tiniest scratch in your cornea and one gets in it causes the most damaging eye infection known. It is horrifically painful generally leads to loss of sight/loss of your cornea or enucleation of your eye. Don't rinse your actual eyeballs with tap water. Eyelids are there for a reason.

You have various glands in your eyes which produce different tear components including antibodies which kill infectious germs and your tears are what clear you eye surface. Your husband being prone to conjunctivitis is more likely due to a problem with his tear glands, please do not advise him to wash his eyes with tap water, if he's susceptible to infections he's an ideal candidate for an acanthomeoba infection.

Aye aye.

Hilarious post. As someone who has just had cataract surgery and worn contact lenses for years no absolutely not. Yours eyes are self cleaning, aside from anti inflammatory drops and dry eye drops I have left my cataract surgery eye well alone as recommended and funnily enough my eye hes settled really well with very little side effects.

Wherever did you hear that! You do not need to wash your eye balls! Good grief!

I love whatever’s wrong with you ❤️

Yes they’re like two little snowballs in my head now. 🤣

I know this isnt relevant really but I took my parrot for an xray today and was looking at the film and realised, deep down, I had kind of assumed their legs were a part of the wing, so after the point at the end of the wing, legs and claws started. The xray freaked me out with its multiple limbs. I've never washed my eyeballs though.