An optometry student I know says they’re unaware of this occurring, as the eyelid will generally catch the bite. If you did get a bug bite on your eyeball, first thing might be cold compress and antihistamines for the swelling and irritation.
Can you get a big bite on your eyeball? How would the eyeball respond?
Submitted 1 year ago by ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Thank you. I don’t have any eye irtitation/bug bite. The question just came to me when 'squitoes were being a nuisance.
SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
When I was in middle school, a girl did in fact get a bug bite on her eyeball. It was blood red for a week and she couldn’t see well, but long term she was fine.
TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, I can’t bite my own eyeball. Neither big nor small.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You forgotten how that old joke goes? ;-)
ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oooh! I didn’t realize there was an old. Please enlighten me.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Man in a bar etc.
Bets he can bite his own eyeball. Folks laughing …
Takes out his glass eye and bites. Wins bet.
The he bets he can bite his other eyeball too. Oops? Surely he can’t have two glass eyes?
Takes out his fake teeth…
PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nah, only small bites. I’ll ask next time I see it.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most likely the eye wouldn’t work anymore, or work too well as all the light gets in. What I do know is that impact and even injury to the eye can have drastic effects on both the way the eye works and how your body responds. My dad got hit with a screw in the eye and he still has it, but got bleeding behind the eye and nearly lost it.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I don’t know about bug bites, but I managed to papercut my eyeball when I was young and careless
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 year ago
…initiating novel nightmare sequence: Eyeball Papercut…
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eyeball papercut sounds like an industrial thrash metal band.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Hey, at least it puts me in rarified company. There can’t be too many people that have managed this trick :)
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Entering operation: EYEBALL PAPERCUT
Saving . . .
theragu40@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish to unread this
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bad news: you can’t unread things. Good news: with just one crisp piece of paper and two quick motions, you can prevent yourself from reading unpleasant things, possibly forever!
dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That sounds awful. How was the pain level?
I scratched my eye once with my fingernail when I was about 12 or 13. It just felt like I had something in my eye constantly for a week.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
That’s exactly what it was like, but throw in some bonus crusty eye gunk
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year ago
New fear unlocked
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Thank of it this way, if you do manage it, it’s a hyper rare achievement, so you’ll get the cool border on your epitaph
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bacon grease popped into my eye. I haven’t worn contacts since.