What Should I Do If I Have Sand in My Eyes?

Eyes are very important to all of us. Eyes affect vision and have a complex structure that is usually connected to our nervous system. Eyes are sensitive in daily life. Once foreign matter enters the eyes, it can cause eye infection and inflammation. In severe cases, it may also lead to ophthalmic diseases and affect the use of eyes. In spring, the wind is stronger and sandstorms are easy to occur. It is inevitable that sand will enter the eyes. It is necessary to deal with it in time when sand enters the eyes.

What should I do if there is sand in my eyes? Here are some tips:

1. Close your eyes and rest. The correct way to deal with sand in the eyes is to calmly close your eyes and rest for a moment. Wait until tears are secreted in large quantities and keep coming out of the eyes. Then slowly open your eyes and blink gently a few times. In most cases, a large amount of tears can automatically flush out the sand that has entered the eyes.

2. Cough vigorously. If the sand that enters is relatively small, you can cough vigorously a few times, and the sand particles will slide out of the eyes with the movement of the eye muscles.

3. Rinse your eyes with clean water. If the above two methods cannot remove the sand from the eyes, you can gently close your eyes first, prepare half a basin of clean water in a washbasin, immerse your head and eyes in the water, gently shake your head in the water, blink a few times, and this can flush out the sand in your eyes. Alternatively, ask someone else to hold open your affected eye and rinse it directly with a blanket filled with clean water.

4. Wipe the sand out of your eyes. If various rinsing methods cannot remove the sand from your eyes, you can ask someone else to flip open your eyelids and gently wipe them. If the foreign matter is in the upper eyelid, flip open the upper eyelid, look down with your eyes, find the foreign matter, and gently wipe it off with a cotton swab or a clean handkerchief dipped in clean water; if it is in the lower eyelid, use your hand to pry open the lower eyelid, look up with your eyes, and wipe it off with the same method.

5. Seek medical attention in necessary cases. Sometimes, it is difficult to directly detect the sand in the eyes with the naked eye, or if the sand is embedded in the eye tissue, it is necessary to seek the assistance of an ophthalmologist as soon as possible to remove the sand from the eyes.

6. Prevent infection. It is important to remember that even if the sand is removed from the eyes in time, it is necessary to appropriately instill some disinfectant eye drops or squeeze in eye ointment to prevent infection.