Anyone Else Have Eyes Irritated by 7% Saline?

@pacathy Irene suggested the goggles and now I wear them every time I nebulize. Also have the humidifier in my amazon cart. I appreciate any more suggestions-if you get any from doc. My eye doctor suggested warm compresses morning and night-but that's just too much for now-maybe later on. He also told me that if I leave this awful desert environment, it may get better. Seriously, would like to move, 7-10 days over 100 degrees in March is getting annoying.

@picartist What type of warm eye pads do you use? type of gel?

@rmoore901
I will monitor this and I may be doing that too.

@myjourneybe is it making you cough too much…causing bronchospasm ? If that’s the issue, I’ve found using albuterol about 20 mins before the saline relaxes my airways .

@cholash
Yes, uncontrollable and usually not too productive. I will try that too. Thank you.

@kathyjjb I use a mask I bought from Amazon Medimask, $25. You heat it 20 seconds and put it on, keeps heat on the eyes. I use Oasis Tears but any well known pharma has them, just make sure to get ones with no preservatives. With my Pari Blue Mask I use some eye protection and with the Red Cup I don't need it.

@rmoore901 You can wash the eye lids with commercial products like pads from Occusoft or just use baby shampoo. The cloth could be a warm wash cloth, not real hot, just some heat. I feel the washing and eye gel drops are the most important. My doctor did not even know I was using saline, they suggest this for all patients with Blepharitis which is eyes stuck together in the morning and very irritated. This process clears it up.

Thank you for posting this, I have had such trouble with my eyes lately. My eye doctor said sodium nebs. should not irritate my eyes, now I think otherwise. He has me using Refresh gel at night, Systane complete PF 4 times a day and warm compresses 3 times a day…. It’s so difficult to try to do all this stuff on top of the nebs., eating to keep weight up and exercise. I do what I can, especially if I want to get out of my house.

@picartist I'll check out the Medimask. Sounds easier than the warm washcloth-especially my procedure of heating water in microwave and then soaking washcloth in. Just too much to do-so trying to minimize all efforts.

I bought goggles from Uline and they are great! I put them on before I start nebulizing and I can watch TV while I’m nebulizing and protecting my eyes