Blood shot irritated eye, does anyone know what this could be?
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Hi, yesterday afternoon my eye felt irritable as if my contact lens had been in too long, this was around 3pm, I had taken the contact out and wore my glasses, at around 11pm my whole eye was completely bloodshot, although it was completely red, it doesn’t have any pain/ affect my vision; it does hurt when I try to sleep as my eye lid is resting on the irritable area, it almost feels bruised where it is most blood shot although I have no bruises on my eye lid or any swelling, as for discharge, it had a little bit when I had woken up but has been completely clean and the white of my eye has remained completely white?
I’m not sure what has caused this and unsure what to do as most doctors and opticians are not open due to covid 19, I’ve been bathing it with boiled water but not sure if it could be something else?
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Hudsongrl rachael49902
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thinking maybe you scratched your eye taking the contact lens out? do you have dry eye? if so your contacts can irritate your eye and cause redness. another thought is an allergy to something. if it were me I'd try some preservative free artificial tears and warm compress
moon53540 rachael49902
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First of all do not put water in your eye even if you have boiled it first there is a lot of chlorine in water. You need to get preservative free eye wash. I use Xailin wash you can get it from amazon. You could have grazed your cornea or you may be getting allergic conjunctivitis or giant papillary conjunctivitis. It maybe you are allergic to a preservative in your contact solution or you may have another allergy which irritated your eye. Either way you should not wear contacts for at least 2 weeks in case you get an infection. If you have a contact solution that contains preservatives, try another one that doesn't. Same with eye drops.