This is not my idea but I wanted to share this with you guys.
Someone in your party has scratched there eye and you have done
all the stuff you are to do but the victim is still in pain.

Did you know you can wet a tea bag ( in cold water) and drop
sum of the juice on the eye and it relieve sum of the pain.


Hope this helps
litlefoot01

Did not know tat! thanks! I have used tea in the middle of the night to wet my eyes, the water here is chloriney as He**!! I avoid drinking it because i would probably poop out chlorine tablets!

are you able to share who said this was a good idea?
do you know whether the tea should be herbal tea or regular tea?
do you know whether the tea, if 'regular' tea, should be caffeinated or not?
if the eye (i am assuming you mean the globe of the eye) is scratched, the pain is caused by blinking. so IMHO the best thing you can do is (1) rinse the eye with saline to remove the cause of the irritation - sand, grit, etc - then (2) gently cover the eye with eye pads made for this - or use 2" x 2" gauze pads - and then tape sufficiently to hold the eyelid shut. seek medical care ASAP. eyes heal quickly - 24hrs is typical.

I found it in a book written by Eric Welss M.D. a well known
doc from what I hear.

and the tea must not be herbal ( sorry forgot to say this)

And this works for all parts of the eye.

LitLefoot01

Wilderness 911 (Backpacker Magazine) (Paperback)
~ Eric Weiss M.D.(Author)

Sorry, but I am a bit critical, tea not being herbal? what other type is there? - all teas are made from plants.

As I do not own the book referred to I cannot check the specifics but I do know that "real" tea contain a lot of tannins, which are antiseptic not analgesic. Since the specifics about the tea isn't mentioned, don't go about dripping tea into your eyes.

Tipi tea however, (not "real" tea) made from Petiveria alliacea, Magnolia family, has proven, in clinical trials to be an analgesic (taken orally).

It is perhaps the terminology that might be confusing:
-the commercial herb generally refers to plants used for culinary purposes.
-the horticultural herb refers to "herbaceous," which describes -the appearance of the plant (i.e., a non-woody, vascular plant).
-the taxonomic herb generally refers to the aboveground parts or the aerial parts (i.e., the flower, leaf, and stem).
-the herbal medicine herb refers to plants used in various forms or preparations, valued for their therapeutic benefits

There are two main varieties of the "real" tea plant in the Camellia family: Camellia sinensis and Camellia assamica. It is the specific variety of tea plant and the way the leaves are processed after harvesting that determine the type of tea that is created, of which there are only four.

go here: Amazon book and find the "Search Inside This Book". search the word "eye". this opens the book to the table of contents. use the "Next result" tab to forward to the exact place where this is mentioned.


i always thought so, too. but we are wrong, says Wikipedia .


you only get two eyes. personally, i wouldn't take a chance on losing one either.

where in sweden?

At the moment I dwell in the south, in Malmoe, but I have my home town in the north in Arvidsjaur.

Tannin is a chemical compound belonging to the polyphenols.
Tannic acid is a special form of tannin, but the two are not the same. And it is true that tea does not contain tannic acid, but it do contain various types of polyphenols = tannins.


Tea tannins
Tannins
Tannic acid

Well he says that black tea is best.
this is why I asked you guys about this because I
do not know everything about eye's. as for the book
I got it with a AMK. first aid kit. Do not get all
crazy about this idea I did not say it works!
And I'M not a tea expert.


LitLefoot01

Huh, whut tea eyeball bags?

Yup. One of my dear old grandmother's home remedies.

She used it as an eyewash to reduce redness and her "tired eyes" feeling.

Tea is sterile because you boiled it. It is fairly neutral because it is just a water infusion, and the tea itself is mildly medicinal.
Because you have strained and filtered the water when you made the tea there are no big pieces of trees or stones to scratch your eyeball.
The tea from a teabag is even cleaner as far as chunks of rubbish go.
There is some antibiotic activity from the stuff in the tea but it is pretty mild, maybe more placebo than anything.
The little bit of tannic acid works to contract the small blood veins (capillaries) and makes redness go away.

So yes, Littlefoot, tea bags can be used to squeeze tea out of for eyewash after you drank most of the tea.
Just remember that you want your eyeball tea cold instead of hot so let it cool off to about body temperature before splashing it into your eyes.

Now for the big don't do this at home warning.
The tea is not for when you have any obvious damage to the eye. In that case the best you can do is to cover it and hope for a specialist to get to it.
(that is unless you are an eye specialist)

But tea is good as an eye rinse.