What should I do if I get something in my eye?
If you get something in your eye, the first thing to do is try to figure out what it is. If you're at the beach and somebody threw sand at you, then you know what it is. Try and avoid digging in your eye to fish whatever it is out because you can scratch your eye by digging around in there. You're much better off just blinking and trying to blink it away. Or, if that doesn't work, you can actually irrigate your eye. You can do that by going into a shower, and kind of opening your eyes under a shower and pulling up on your eyelets so the water can wash underneath there. You can do it at a sink, you can do it a water fountain. But it's much better to irrigate your eye with water than it is to fish around for it. Now, if you get a chemical in your eye, like an acid, that's potentially a real medical emergency. The first thing you want to do is rush to someplace where you can rinse your eye out and irrigate it vigorously. So that can be a shower, a drinking fountain, it doesn't matter. Open your eye as wide as you can by pulling back on your eyelet and rinse for at least ten minutes to get as much of the chemical out as you can. Then high tail it to the emergency room because these are potentially very serious injuries.
