Eye Discharge, Eye Boogers, Rheum, Sleep in Your Eyes. What is it? What Causes It?
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Contact Lens King Presents, Eye Discharge or Eye Boogers. Also Known as Rheum or Sleep in Your Eyes.
Eye boogers or discharge, also called Rheum, or “sleep” in your eyes, is made up of mucus, skin cells, and other debris. This discharge helps protect the eye.
Your eyes produce this mucus throughout the day, but when you are awake the tears tears that bath your eyes help flush the rheum or discharge away when you blink.
However, When you’re asleep, this eye discharge collects in the corners of your eyes and sometimes along the lash line. Depending how much fluid evaporated, it can be dry or sticky.
Having a little sleep in your eyes when waking up is normal, however ever if you experience excessive discharge along with other symptoms such as blurry vision, you should followup with your eye care doctor.
Eye boogers which are also called eye goop or eye gunk, are the small yellow particles that accumulate in our eye corners. They starts to accumulates in our eye corners while sleeping,
And they become dry and crispy, appearing on our eyelids in the morning.
Causes
In scientific terms, eye boogers are known as rheumes. They form because of eye discharge. Our eye discharge contains tears, mucus, dust particles and bacteria. Our eyes have tear glands on the upper side, that produces tears. Our eyes remain open during the day, causing tears to spread on the eye surface. While we also produce tears while sleeping, However, because our eyes are closed, tears, dust particles, and mucus begin to accumulate on the eye corner, They turn into eye boogers until morning.
Eye boogers is a normal condition, But some condition make eye boogers appear more e.g, dry eyes, blockage of tear ducts, conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
Dry Eyes
When our eyes do not produce enough tears, they become dry. Dry eyes can be caused by a variety of factors, including autoimmune diseases, eyelid infection, ageing, and living in a dry environment.
Blockage of Tear ducts.
If some bacteria cause infection in our ear ducts, It blocks tear ducts and causes inflammation, resulting in excessive eye discharge, which cause eye boogers
Blepharitis
If bacteria, present on our eyelids or bacteria from skin allergy cause an eye infection, This causes inflammation in the eyes, which results in eye boogers.
Conjunctivitis
If our eyes become red and infected as a result of an allergy or chemical, it can also result in eye boogers.
Symptoms
If eye boogers impair our vision or make our eyes sensitive to light, We should consult doctor immediately
Treatment
If our eyes become dry, red or painful because of eye boogers. So, using eye drops, we can relieve redness, pain, and dryness. In addition, we can use eyeglasses instead of contact lenses to avoid eye boogers.
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