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

[HumourMeThis]

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?

I have never knowingly washed my eyeballs.

I don’t think I’ve ever cleaned my eyes. They are quite obviously self cleaning!

ew.

fuck no.

you do not need to wash eyeballs.

Sorry but 😂😂😂

What do you think tears do?

Oh god, just the thought of spraying shower water in my eyes makes me wince.

Eyeballs are self-cleaning - that is what blinking does!

What the hell have I just read?

I lick mine like a gecko like all normal people.

WTF am I reading??

They are definitely self cleaning! So much so that mine don’t stop and run constantly! Blocked oil duct apparently.

You can’t actually be being serious though surely?

But they are self cleaning tears and blinking and water isn’t good for them

Is this a joke?

This is the strangest thing I've ever seen on mumsnet. Of course you don't need to wash your eyeballs! In fact, I'm pretty sure opticians would advise against it.

Do you use shower gel too?

Why stop at your eyeballs? I inhale the shower water to give my lungs a good clean out.

I clean mine once a week properly with bleach, other than that it’s just a daily squirt of Cif.

I have a special, hard bristled brush to cleanse mine thoroughly. Doesn't everyone? 😆

Ive always been taught to open my eyes under the shower and rinse my eyes because otherwise I would get conjunctivitis and infections because gunk builds up in them. Surely that makes sense! I can’t imagine not washing my eyes 😳

I make a point to not interfere in that ecosystem. You must have really conquered your instinct to blink, you'd be a real challenge in a staring contest.

You mean you don’t give them a daily scrub with swarfega??

I bet you insert shower gel into your vagina too. Don't.

And that's just to cope with reading topics like this 😂

Washing your eyeballs with tap/shower water is more than likely to give you eye infections. Especially if you wear contacts.

I’m sorry what? nope. Of course no one washes their eyeballs. I mean ewwwww and also nooooo. It’s just you I think @HumourMeThis

I use an old toothbrush to really get the grime off