What is the white material that comes out the corner (tear ducts) of your eyes

[what..the?]

What is it called, why is it produced, and why do some people like myself produce masses of the stuff, I' m I doing something different?

This is an extremely annoying part of my life having to wipe my eyes etc all the time to remove this stuff because I hate if people are faced with it when talking to me.

Any help???

[~Wingnut~]

Urgh tell me about it what..the?! I wear contact lenses and sometimes it is like looking thru a mist when it smears across my lense! I get a build up of protein on my lenses so assumed it was gunk produced from too much protein.
I will look forward to see what others say :o)

[mccfluff]

http://www.howard.k12.md.us/res/eyes/interesti ngfacts.html

[what..the?]

I do not wear contact lenses though??

Ah from what mccfluff links to - it says that basically you get this stuff in your eyes because over night you eyelashes cannot do the work it does during the day - clearing all the dirt out of your eyes.

But I do not just get this just at night/morning i get this throughout the day - does this therefore mean that I do not have effective eyelashes, are they useless at cleaning my eyes throught the day therefore producing 'sleep'??

[~Wingnut~]

Hi again :o)

I think what it is saying is that during the day by blinking it is clearing the crap of everyday living away from your eyes which collects in the corner, prehaps it means we have more effective eyelashes hence why so much glup collects?
I keep thinking that eye drops may help but it's hard to find one for contact lense wearers that don't cost the earth!