Eye irritation is necessary to clear foreign body from the eye or give a good cleaning of the eye. 

Equipment required

• Sterile dressing pack

• Sterile normal saline or sterile water for irrigation

• Towel

• Plastic cape

• Irrigating flask

• Warm water to warm the irrigating fluid before installation

• Anaesthetic drops

• Receiver bowl

Procedure

• Explain the procedure to the parent and the child

• Calm the child. Make sure you have good light in the room

• Prepare the irrigation fluid to appropriate temperature by placing it in the warm water bowl

• Wash your hands with soap and water and dry your hands

• Apply the anaesthetic drops to the eye

• If possible remove the eye lens if any before the procedure

• Get the child to wear the plastic cape and Place the towel on a table.

Get the child in right posture-

• Support the head by keeping the chin horizontal. You can do this by placing the chin of the child on the towel on the table

• Now incline the head to a side so the affected eye is downwards.  And hold the patient’s eyelids apart sing your index and thumb fingers. Make sure not to press the yes during this.

• Ask the child to hold the receiver bowl against the cheek below the eye being irrigated

• Now gently flow the water through the irrigation bowl from the nasal side outwards.

• Ask the patient to move their eyes during the procedure. Also, try to evert the upper and lower eyelids to make sure you have irrigated the corners.

• Keep on irrigating for a few minutes until you confident you have covered all sections of the eye

• Take the receiver and dry the cheek of the patient with a towel

• Once the procedure is done, dispose the equipment correctly and record the procedure in the documents

• Wash your hands with soap and water