8 Things You Should Never Do to Your Eyes - Article Health

Eye health habits to avoid
Your eyes are meant to gaze adoringly into the face of your boo or lead you safely through a gorgeous mountain hike. They’re not meant to be pricked with a needle, dyed, or doused with homemade solutions.

Tattoo your eyeball
You may have heard about the Canadian model who decided to tattoo her eyeballs purple. She ended up with a nasty infection and is now waiting to see if she can save her sight.

Wear non-prescribed decorative contact lenses
It’s Halloween. You’ve decided you’d like to have orange eyes for the occasion. You buy decorative contacts at the gas station or online. Another bad idea.

Shave your eyelids
In November 2017, Reuters followed a street-side barber in China as he shaved customers’ eyelids. Running a straight razor along the inside of the eyelid is said to unblock the oil glands lining the lids, and some customers apparently swear by it. Eye professionals, not so much.

Sleep in your contacts
It may not seem like a big deal and, in fact, the contact lenses may even be advertised as safe to sleep in. Don’t believe it.

Problems might not happen the first time you sleep in your lenses, but they can and do occur. That’s because contacts deprive the corneas of oxygen, which fosters the growth of infection-causing bacteria.

Make your own saline solution
Maybe you ran out of saline solution, it’s late, and you don’t want to run to the store to get more. Easy–you'll mix some salt with tap water. While that's a tempting way to solve your problem fast, you may end up with nasty organisms in your eye.

Remove lesions from your eyelid by yourself
So you have a small bump, cyst, or stye on your eyelid. Please do not take a safety pin and pop it. “It’s not like getting a splinter out of your foot,” Dr. Taylor says. “The eyelid skin is some of the thinnest skin in the body. The risk of infection and permanent damage is high.”


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