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 don’t even wash my face let alone my eyeballs. Rarely even cleanse and moisturise. Almost 60, no issue here 😂

Exactly what I was just thinking!!

How do you dry them?

Tap water has bacteria in it.
It's insanity to think you need to rinse your eyes..

I have never once been bitten by a wolf. That "Keep away wolves" charm that wear around my neck obviously works.

Nice try, and I hope you are enjoying your bollocks thread and laughing your arse off that anybody actually believes you.

Correlation does not equal causation.

Do you also not eat ice cream because shark attacks on people increase with increased ice cream consumption (Fact)?

Interestingly, I have never had an eye infection or conjunctivitis and I have never washed my eyeballs.

Who the fuck washes their eyeballs??!! Just you I think OP 🤣

Haha that's brilliant 👏

I’m very prone to conjunctivitis and have sensitive eyes. Dh isn’t. Neither of us wash our eyeballs.

So where does that leave us all then?

Howling! 🤣

Dear lord.

I'm pretty sure getting tap water in your eyes can, in very rare cases, cause blindness, presumably due to a bacterial infection. I will now Google this and confirm my facts.

Well yes obviously but you don’t get foreign objects in your eyes everyday to make them water, so surely they need washing daily too?

I grew up with this information. My parents told me how to wash my eyes and I remember being quite young when I still used to shower with my mum and she would wash her eyeballs this way too. I don’t think it’s as unusual as people make out.. similar to whether people wash their legs or not.

Obviously

Well, in my 53 years I’ve never ‘washed my eyes’ and I’ve never had an eye infection, conjunctivitis, stye etc either, so I suppose my way works too!

Honestly, OP. This is like people who still believe in adulthood that if you swallow chewing gum it wraps around your internal organs because someone once told them that when they were five.

😂 not a phrase I’d ever thought I’d read. But yes same here. Of all my body parts that isn’t one I actively wash…

No.

Just - No.

How do you know you’ve managed to clean your entire eyeball, though? Are you sure you’re not just cleaning the front and letting the rest fester?

Seriously...you could damage your eyes doing this. No one ever do that!

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.

My tears burn my skin. After I cry my face feels like it's on fire 💔💔

This is a very good point actually. The back of your eyes is probably filthy 😞

I would say anyone would look confused

hahhahahahhaaaa! Good one @HumourMeThis

What do you mean whether you wash your legs or not?!

You’re telling me you wash your eyeballs but not your legs?