After chili peppers get into the eyes, patients need to avoid rubbing the eyes, immediately use water to rinse the eyes, and then follow the doctor’s instructions to use medication, such as recombinant human epidermal growth factor eye drops.
1. Avoid rubbing the eyes: If chili peppers get into the eyes, don’t rub the eyes with your hands, which may lead to corneal epithelium abrasion, or even lead to corneal epithelium exfoliation in severe cases.
2. Rinse the eyes with water: patients need to immediately use a large amount of water to rinse the eyes to eliminate the foreign body sensation, tingling, photophobia, tearing and other symptoms of the eye, in the process of rinsing, the patient needs to keep turning the eyeballs, so that the water rinsed to every corner of the conjunctival sac, to flush out the chili peppers.
3. medication as prescribed by the doctor: the patient’s eye discomfort symptoms are obvious, the patient may have corneal epithelial damage, the patient needs to be under the guidance of the doctor to use drugs to promote corneal repair, such as recombinant human epidermal growth factor drops, recombinant bovine alkaline fibroblast growth factor eye drops, and so on. Patients can also use levofloxacin eye drops, etc. to prevent infection.
It is recommended that patients with chili peppers in their eyes should consult a regular hospital in a timely manner to assess their condition and treat them under the guidance of a doctor.