How do I Relieve Eye Disinfectant in the Eye?

If you're a contact lens wearer, you probably use disinfectant to clean your lenses of deposits, dirt or debris. Typically, you apply a few drops of disinfectant to the lens. Using a clean finger, you rub the disinfectant into the lens, then rinse the lens with saline solution. If the disinfectant is not rinsed off with saline solution before you place the lens in your eye, it will burn and may damage your eye. First aid requires a few steps.

Things You'll Need

• Water
• Saline solution

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Instructions

• 1

  Remove the lens from your eye immediately.

• 2

  Flush your eye with clean, lukewarm water or clean saline solution for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Hold your eye open and pour water or saline solution into your eye. If you use water, step into the shower and let water from the shower nozzle flush your eye.

• 3

  If burning or irritation in the eye persists, flush your eye again.

• 4

  Avoid placing a lens into your eye for up to 24 hours.

• 5

  Contact an eye doctor if the burning or irritation does not go away within a few hours or after repeatedly flushing your eye with water or saline solution.