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Bad childhood memory; potentially dangerous in adult life.
Ok, so when I was about 4 or 5, I didn’t have many friends, so tended to play on my own a lot. I noticed there was a sewer/grid thingymajiggy there, it had a hole in it, so naturally, as a curious toddler I looked down the hole and something flew into my eye. It just felt like wind flying there, and I thought it may have been a bit of dirt or whatever, but now I think it might be something worse. Anyway, at the time I got a teacher to get it out of my eye (or at least the feeling of it out of my eye, but I randomly remembered this memory the other night, and now have the feeling it was poop in my eye, and am now worried that it’s never all came out of my eye, and that some of it’s still there. How will I be able to tell?
My parents don’t know of this incident as it happened at school. I’m 16 now, so don’t know why it came into my head randomly.
Am worried that my eye might be infected now? I get hay fever every year and think it might be connected to this.
Sorry if I seem stupid for worrying.
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You are over thinking this all. Even if something did get onto your eye that long ago, any infecton would have occurred right away then, not 1o plus years later. Our eyes create tears not only to keep our eyes moist but do so in excess at times like that to wash any debris from our eyes.
The issue with hayfever is that if a grain of pollen were seen under a microscope, it would look like this:
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You see a grain is full of spikes and sometimes hook like parts, and this helps pollen to stay on the plant it landed on. Unfortunately, it irritates the eye and takes a while for your eye to flush it out, only to be bombarded by more pollen in the air. I don't get it too bad but I have so I know what it feels like. Rubbing your eyes only makes the irritated membrane of the eye feel worse so resist the urge to rub. If you must touch there somehow, then only close your eyes and apply some pressure to your eye. The best thing is eye drops for hayfever symptoms and taking allergy pills regularly during the time you have problems, not waiting until you feel the symptoms.
You are right that anything like poop in the eyes can cause infection. You only don't have the time line correct. The infection would have occurred back then and since it didn't, what ever germs from that were washed out by your tears within the first day or two. Have you ever got a loose eyelash floating on your eye? It feels like a zillion things that don't belong are on your eye. Its painful and irritating. When this happens, my eye waters so bad I can't see barely. I am only teaching something for the future in case it happens to you. There can be germs on your fingers too so wash your hands and fingers well with an anti bacterial soap but also rinse well. Dry the finger you will be using. I used to wear contacts and was used to putting them in and getting close to my eye. When your finger tip is dry, it acts like a magnet and the wet eyelash will stick to it 90% of the time when you open your eye wide, pull lids away to look for a lash and touch it gently with your finger. I know some people use tip of a kleenex tissue to attempt removal, but tissue is made up of wood fibers which under microscope will look as bad as pollen grains and therefore it can scratch and irritate the eye in the removing of the eyelash.
I would like to point out something you may not be aware of, but it has to do with our thought processes. Everyone does this sometimes. It is called 'distorted thinking'. This would mean once a thought enters the head, the mind will take it and run with it, dwelling on what if's, imagining the worst and non of it will be rational or able to be scientically proven. You'll know what I mean when I tell you of one that happens often when I am going down the freeway and see a bad accident, like a car flipped over. Immediately, human curiosity hits and I start to imagine what it must feel like to be stuck in an overturned car. Would my phone be near to call for help, or would some other motorist call it in. How long before aid arrives, and the process of them getting me out. And the longer I dwell on this scenario in the mind, the worse it will get if I don't stop myself from dwelling on it. If so, next I will think, oh wait, maybe I am not okay, maybe I am hurt, how bad would it be, how long would it take me to recover. What if I lost an arm or leg, or even died? See, that is a bit of truth I will share because I have done that. It neverk gets that bad or goes for long because I tell myself ahead of time, before a distorted thought comes, that if one starts, I need to tell myself to end it ASAP. I switch gears then and instead of thinking of myself, I aay a simple prayer for the people in the car and then drop the thought and focus on my day,where I am headed, what errands I need to run. I just stop dwelling on distorted thoughts. I wouldn't call it a mental illness because almost all peopple once they know about it, are able to stop the part of dwelling on. People who have done the dwelling on distorted thoughts for lengths of time each time they have a bad thought, will find they do it more often, it happens more often and eventually, it morphs from a bad habit to a mental disability and a person can develop phobia's anxieties and such which do fall under mental disabilities or illness.
So you don't have to feel sorry for such thoughts coming to you, it happens to all humans. But learn how to stop it. If not sure if there is anything to really be concerned about as in your case, try to find answers on the internet and if you can't, then confide in an adult you trust, if not your parents, someone else you can ask to you can quickly determine if as in this case you wrote about, that you need to see a Dt. or whether there is nothing to worry about.
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