When you have dust in your eye, gently move the foreign body with the corner of a handkerchief or clean towel. Make the eye cry by staring at a point for a long time.
Then rinse with clear water, standing sideways under the tap. As soon as the dust is gone, the embarrassment stops. Otherwise, it is necessary to consult. Above all, do not rub, as pressure exerted on the eye can lodge the foreign body in the conjunctiva and make it difficult to dislodge. And this may then end in the ophthalmologist emergency room for a small extraction in the operating room.
Conjunctivitis: do your own eye bath!
Quiz: do you know about eye diseases?
