Irrigation/ sweep: Soft contact lenses can get stuck or can tear, and pieces can be stuck inside the conjunctival fornices. These pieces usually will work themselves out, but occasionally irrigation with an eye wash stream, sweeping the fornices with a pre-moistened q-tip after topical anesthetic and/or jeweler's forceps can remove the pieces. The eye doc will flip the eyelid to better visualize as well.
Answered 4/21/2016
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Look but be gentle.: Try to flush with sterile saline. Also double everting the lids can sometimes find stubborn foreign bodies in the eye. You can't really do this yourself. A scratch on the cornea can give you a sensation that a foreign body is still there even if there is none.. So don't be too aggressive in your search.
Answered 9/28/2016
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