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?

I think what you are doing is quite dangerous. Eyes are supersensitive. I am amazed that you haven't caught some kind of infection yet.

I do wash my legs! But I know people that don’t 😅

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.

Where are your parents from OP that they thought this was normal?

No one washes their eyeballs, you weirdo 😂

But WHO taught you to do this, OP?

Gotta be a troll

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

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

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?

No.

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

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.

😂😂😂

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Perhaps this is the OP’s mission.

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 🤢🤢

I never thought of this.

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

Christ, there's more than one of you?

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

😳 <— big open eye balls in the shower

WTAF

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