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

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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?

Water contacts a bacteria that can cause serious eye infections - you're not supposed to wash things that contact your eyes in water and people who leave contact lenses in water have developed horrible infections

Surely this is a piss take thread?

I've never had conjunctivitis or washed my eyeballs, I let my natural eye lubrication, tears and blinking to look after them.

Just waited until you have permanent dry eye. Drops a go go.Real nuisance.

Then you would gladly stand under a shower all day long easing your eye ball if it helped.

I get blepharitis - little clear cysts on eyelash follicles. Caused by blockage of sebum. Hospital doctor’s advice was terrible - using baby shampoo and cotton bus to clean. Painful. I now put a hot flannel on eyelids for 30 seconds and then wash with a derma friendly lotion. It works. Cysts have gone.

I laughed out loud at this, thank you for making my day happier

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.

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

I love whatever’s wrong with you ❤️

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

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.

Aye aye.

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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.

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.

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Me too! Brillo pads are good too

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.

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

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.

How do you think hedgehogs wash their eyes ?

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

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! 😍

This thread cheered me up OP. 🤣❤️

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

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….🙄