Eye wash procedure in first aid -“Nursing Principles”

Eye wash procedure 

Eye wash or eye irrigation is the procedure of washing the eye under aseptic precautions. It is done to remove a foreign body from the eye, to remove inflammatory discharge from the eye, and before an eye operation.

The procedure of giving an eye wash is as follows:

  1. Make the patient lie down or sit up as convenient. Tilt the head backward in sitting position. Put mackintosh under the head in a lying down position and wrap a towel around his neck.
  2. Ask the patient or an assistant to hold a kidney tray below the eye to be washed. Wash your hands thoroughly well with soap and water. Open the patient’s eyelids.
  3. Soak a swab of cotton in sterile normal saline and squeeze it into the patient’s eye, first under the upper eyelid and then under the lower eyelid.
  4. Repeat the procedure till the eye becomes clean.
  5. Dry the eyelids from outside using dry cotton swabs.

 

 

 

 

 

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