Eye irritation from riding?

[kramdra]

Not had an eye test for about 16 years, never had any problems. My eyes have been irritated this week so went got them checked. Looked like I had a bit of dirt but it is a small bit of UV damage on right eye plus dry eyes. Im outside couple hours a day. I dont need and hate glasses.

When riding air leaks around visor and into my eyes. Often feel dirt hit me. I need to stop this, but has happened with every lid. Opening the chin vent can help change the airflow but not much better. Any ideas?

Gave me eye drops and told me to wear uv protection - trying to sell glasses, for outside. Otherwise eyes are perfect

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Sounds like you need glasses but are in denial. Did you actually have an eye test? Avoid Specsavers and go to a proper opticians.

[NJD]

[TheSmiler]

Could be sweat trickling into your eyes. Sometimes get the same problem causing watering. Recently had an eye test and all perfect; that was there suggestion.
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[Polarbear]

Wear a DECENT pair of wrap round eye protectors under your helmet.

Something like this

https://www.screwfix.com/p/bolle-tracker-ii-clear-lens-safety-specs/43500

I say decent because the cheap ones are likely to give blurred vision on the peripherals.
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[Rogerborg]

[stinkwheel]

Yes, I get sore eyes on the bike too.

Pretty much any sort of glasses will stop the harmful, short UV wavelengths. I used to work with them in a lab and the difficulty was finding something they WOULD pass through, we had to use special and ludicrously expensive crystal test tubes for UV spectrophotometry. Your visor will block most of them.

UV can cause irritation but if you're like me, part of it is wind blast drying the surface out, part of it is damage to the cornea/tear film by small particles.

I awlays wear some sort of protective glasses under my helmet. Oakley wrap-arounds for preference, the lenses are optically perfect. In fairness though, I'm a cheap arse so I mostly wear JTS stealth protective glasses. which I like because they are a close fit and don't have a seperate "bridge" that goes on your nose, something that annoys the crap out of me. Available in a wide choice of colours.

I also use eye drops on occasion. I look for over the counter ones containing hyaluronic acid, this will help to repair the damaged tear film. The tear film is much more complex than just salty water.
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[kgm]

I've noticed I've gotten a couple of styes after long rides - on every occasion there was a short period of riding visor up slightly so I love longer do that. The only reason I've done so previously is due to salt on the visor obscuring my vision or due to my glasses fogging if I'm not wearing contacts. I'm tempted to get a pair of those safety glasses tbh.

[stinkwheel]

[kramdra]

It was specsavers. I had a proper eye test, including eye pressure, photo of the back, sight test, all perfect, and exam of the eye surface - which was not. I do not need glasses for seeing. I only need something to protect my eyes from UV - glasses, visor, safety squints. Was impressed by the eye test, they check a lot more than when I last went.

In my opinion, prevent this stream of dusty air going around the visor, although he dismissed that / road dust as being a mere annoyance - there are no scratches or signs of foreign bodies on my eye surface.

Cant remember which he said I have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguecula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygium_(conjunctiva)


Suggesting I wear glasses under lid while riding? that does not seem ideal as they will fog up.

[stephen_o]

I had a fly find a way through my closed visor and straight into my eye at 85mph on the motorway, I had to dive for the hard shoulder and was stopped for 10 mins whilst I stopped crying - the agony was similar to the 1st time I wore hard contact lenses.

I have regular eye irritation on bike from wind dryness and now tend to wear my specs rather than contacts due to the specs providing a windbreak.
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[stinkwheel]

[Rogerborg]

[MCN]

You can always get a dead person's eyes and pop them in if it gets really bad.

Dirt that was inside the helmet or on your clothes or your big moon fizog being stirred up by the draughts through the visor is most probably where the 'dirt' particle that hit your eye came from.

If you leave your helmet in dusty, dirty (down on the ground/road) they you can pick up stuff.
When you jam your oversized noggin in there you transport any detritus from the neck collar to the inside of the helmet.

Just sayin'

And what is wrong with Specsavers?

We were all raped by opticians years ago when they could spunk into our eyes for plastic frames and lenses they bough cheap and sold to the NHS and private vision impaired for extortionate prices. The Baaaastarts.

Specsavers broke that fukin' pattern of theft.
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[AshWebster]

Has no-one suggested to buy an actual helmet that doesnt leak?
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[NJD]

[M.C]

[kramdra]

[doggone]

It's funny this topic came up as I was having problems and put it down to feeding sheep dry dusty hay in the gale force wind last week.
Went to Docs and he prescribed Hypromellose drops and after two days almost normal again, felt better even at first use.
You can buy on the high street for less than half prescription price.
I will have an unopened one in stock in case it flares up again.

[stephen_o]

I have had problems today despite wearing specs just from the bitter wind.
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[kramdra]

The drops perscribed were 0.2% Sodium Hyaluronate without preservative 11 quid isa bit expensive, the bottle is annoying to use.

I got a spare bottle 0.1% from poundworld, but these have 0.0001% PHMB, hve not tried yet.

Got some cheap wrap around safety specs butnot tried under lid yet

[M.C]

[kramdra]

They have identical ingredients to the other Sainsburys bottle I bought for a few quid more. Im not sure you are aware how poundworld and similar stores work. It is mostly stock where supply far exceeds demand. Most of it is name brand where the brands are willing to have their stock at a discount else they will fire up a new brand name and use exactly the same recipie. I just checked the bottle both are made by EM Pharma ltd in the UK.

I also say the bottle, small squeezy type, much nicer to use, easier to aim, slightly bigger drop than the fancy expensive German one

[P.]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

Riding with your eyes closed will help.
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