When we wake up every morning, it is normal to have some eye “crust” or “goop” in our eyes. However, if there is a sudden increase, there might be three potential reasons behind this, with one of them being a very infectious eye disease.
When we sleep at night, our eyes remove some of the dirty stuff from them and concentrate it in the corners of our eyes, along with a thin mucus discharged from our eyes.
The end product is called rheum, also known as eye mucus.
However, Dr. Peici Kuan, director of pediatric ophthalmology at Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, is often asked by her patients, “Why do I always wake up in the morning with eye boogers? Is there eye inflammation?”…