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Feeling Of Something Caught In The Corner Of The Eye, Had Bug Flown In The Eye, Had Washed With Water. Remedy?

I was outside last night at the drive in and all of a sudden my eye started hurting. I think a bug flew in my eye. I flushed it with water because it was stinging very badly. I couldn t seem to find the bug. I went to bed with, i think, still in there and it is still bothering me today. It feel likes I have something caught in the upper left corner of my right eye. What should I do?
Mon, 18 Jun 2012
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Hi
I can understand the discomfort you are going through.
Take a handful of water or a shallow bowl of water and try blinking inside the water. If the FB-foreign body( insect / a piece of it) is lying loose in the superficial layers of conjunctiva,with a couple of blinks it will come out.

Ask someone to see your eye with a torch light beam focused under the upper lid ,while they pull it up and you look towards your nose tip.

If you find something,which didn't come out with washing/ blinking, then it must be clinging a little deeper to manipulate and can only be removed under a slit lamp microscope by an ophthalmologist/ optometrist. Don't manipulate your eye too much, to avoid secondary Corneal abrasions due to the FB.

Take care.
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Feeling Of Something Caught In The Corner Of The Eye, Had Bug Flown In The Eye, Had Washed With Water. Remedy?

Hi I can understand the discomfort you are going through. Take a handful of water or a shallow bowl of water and try blinking inside the water. If the FB-foreign body( insect / a piece of it) is lying loose in the superficial layers of conjunctiva,with a couple of blinks it will come out. Ask someone to see your eye with a torch light beam focused under the upper lid ,while they pull it up and you look towards your nose tip. If you find something,which didn t come out with washing/ blinking, then it must be clinging a little deeper to manipulate and can only be removed under a slit lamp microscope by an ophthalmologist/ optometrist. Don t manipulate your eye too much, to avoid secondary Corneal abrasions due to the FB. Take care.