Under normal circumstances, eye droppings are eye secretions that everyone produces and wiping them off is sufficient. Elderly people who have a lot of eye droppings may also be caused by conjunctivitis, dacryocystitis, dry eye, and so on. 1. Conjunctivitis: Conjunctivitis is mostly an inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by bacterial infection, which can cause congestion and edema of the conjunctiva of the eyes, mucopurulent secretion of the conjunctival sac and other discomforts, so there will be a lot of eye boogers. 2. Dacryocystitis: abnormalities in the tear ducts, so that tears are retained in the tear sac for a long time, triggering the growth of bacteria, there can be a phenomenon of eye boogers, while patients often have tear overflow, swelling of the tear sac area, pressure and pain sensation and other discomforts. 3. Dry eye: the elderly are prone to eye surface tear secretion is insufficient, evaporation is too fast, etc. induced by dry eye, suffering from dry eye, can also lead to the phenomenon of increased eye boogers. Elderly people get up in the morning with more eye droppings, if accompanied by eye redness, overflow tears and other discomforts, it is recommended that the patient go to a professional ophthalmologist clinic, after clarifying the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor, to carry out targeted treatment.