Eye snot, for those of you unfamiliar with the phenomenon, is that charming mucus secretion that collects in the corners of your eyes while you sleep.
In the winter I tend to get lots and lots of dried eye snot, I think because the air is so dry. Inevitably, almost every morning, some small chunk of dried out eye snot breaks off and gets lodged up under my eyelid, which is very painful and it takes a long time to flush it out with warm water and so forth. So I am soliciting some eye snot advice on:
Good ways to flush dried eye snot out of my eyeball in a timely manner,
Ways to prevent or reduce eye snot build-up,
The correct word for “eye snot” would be nice to know but isn’t really important, and
When you get up in the morning, use a good eye wash solution that has boric acid as an active ingredient. It’ll wash the snot out of your eyes in a safe manner. This is available OTC in any drug store.
I have a similar problem. What was recommended to me by my Opthamalogist, and has worked well, is to scrub my eyes with a warm, wet washcloth and (a small amount of) baby shampoo during my morning shower. Yes, the commercials are accurate - no tears.
Talk to your opthamologist. There is a eyedrop (Rx only) for allergies – stopped my eye snot completely. And when you do, call it eye snot. My cranky old doc got a kick out of the term.
I never connected my allergies (hay fever type) with my lifelong nasty massive morning eyesnot clumps, since I had eye snot during the winter when I can breathe through my nose without benedryl. My eye doctor did, and solved the problem. A GP probably could, too, if you usually see an optomitrist. Anyway, ask a doctor.
Back before my eye surgery when I wore contact lenses, I’d get lots of eye snot. Know what the coolest thing was? Some days, I’d have so much eye snot I could grab the end of the eye snot, the end of it that had collected near my lower tear duct, (closest to your nose) and gently pull it, and it was part of a nice long contiguous piece of eye snot that ran along the entire lower eye lid, and it was absolutely the coolest sensation. Sorta like when you have stitches, and the wound has healed and you pull the stitches out yourself, and it feels really awsome? Like that.
I miss my eye snot, but I just don’t get that much anymore.
Patanol? Kick-ass stuff. It makes life livable for me during allergy season. I used to get so much eye snot in the spring that it’d glue my eyelashes together, making it tough to pull my eyelids apart in the morning, but since the Patanol, it’s at near-normal levels.
Elestat, this time. I think the difference (besides manufacturer) is solution strength. My Elestat is 0.05% and the Patanol (sample) is 0.1% The lower dosage works beautifully for me, so we’re sticking with that for now.
Oooh, eye snot. I used to get that. Damn, that stuff was cool. Erm, I don’t really have any advice for you, but…
This reminds me of the future doper in me deciding to test the veracity of this claim back when I was just a little roshlet. Anyway, I decided the shampoo was really no tears, then I could put some in my eye, no problem, right? So, in the name of science, I tilted my head back and dropped a good sized glob of the baby shampoo right into my eye. It burned with the fury of, um, a furious thing. I screamed for my mom and informed her that the baby shampoo manufacturers were big fat LIARS!
