Specialist :Dr. Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ruiz..

   Do you think that rubbing your eyes will help you get rid of a foreign body in eye? False. It does not help in getting rid of it, and it may scratch the cornea when you rub your eyelid against your eye. The best thing is to let tears carry the foreign object away and visit an Ophthalmologist as soon as possible.

   Foreign body or object is the term used to call any object that gets on the eye and that should not be there. It may be on the conjunctiva (thin membrane that covers the eye) or in the cornea (colorless convex surface that covers the front part of the eye).
   
   The specialist who knows the best way to get a foreign body out of the eye is an Ophthalmologist. This physician is the one qualified, in a situation like this, to evaluate what kind of foreign object it is and the steps to follow.