Help!

[sammd]

I've got an eyelash stuck under my upper eye lid. Nothing i've tried to get it out works. It hurts but i really don't want to go to A&E. Can anyone suggest anything that'll get it out?

[LouBoo]

Have you tried flushing your eye with water? Or something sterile like contact lense solution? It's best to use an eye bath, but if you haven't, use an egg cup or small cup. Hold it up to your eye and rapidly blink when the water reaches your eyeball - to flush it out.
This may be a bit messy.. water down the face, but if it does the trick!

If you don't want to do that, stand in front of a mirror, invert your upper eyelid by pulling your eyelashes back. Use pointed tissue or a cotton bud to extract the eyelash.

I one of these solutions works for you. x

[teag1rl]

OK, this hurts a bit, and I'm not sure how safe it is, but I'd twist tissue into a point and wet it-eyelash usually sticks to the wet tissue and comes away. this works off the eyeball, but I'm not sure about inside of eyelid. It's what I'd try though.

Good luck. I'm very funny about my eyes too, but if it does come to A & E I'm sure it wont be too bad. I've even got over my eye wierdness to wear lenses and had to have optician poke around to get me started with them and it wasn't that bad.

[noxlumos]

If you pull your upper eyelid down over your bottom one and let it "ping " back up a few times, it usually sends anything into the inner corner of your eye where you can get it out with your little finger.Hope this helps:)

[stoo_pid]

Can't other any extra advice sammd but I was in this situation once & put up with it for 2 full days! In the end I was frog-marched to A&E by my workmates. Aside from the fact that I was concerned to say the least with the prospect of someone messing about with my eyeball I also felt a pratt going to hospital for something so trivial as an eyelash.

What I wanted to say tho was I really wish I'd gone there in the first place cos I literally didn't feel a thing. They just put this liquid in my eye (which I didn't even feel go in) that made it easier to see the lash as well as numbing my eye. 30 seconds later, no lash, no pain. (Incidentally the doc did tell me off tho for leaving it so long before going to him as I'd managed to scratch my eyeball in a few places)

[teag1rl]

Please tell us how you get on sammd!!

[sammd]

Thanks for all your tips. I was just about to try them and was preparing to go to A&E if it didn't work when it decided to disappear. It definitely didn't come out so it must've gone round the back of my eye. I'm really worried. What do i do now? :(

[{Dakota}]

Sam, there's no harm done if it went round the back of your eye, I'm not entirely sure it *can* go round the back of your eye.

If you're really worried, make an appointment with an optitian, he/she will get you sorted in a jiffy :)

[sammd]

As it has disappeared and i can't feel any sign of it anymore i'm assuming it came out (or has found a nice home behind my eye). But if it comes back i'll be straight down the docs...