Baking soda - lid hygiene

[brd888]

I see some recommendations to use a baking soda solution to help keep the eyelids clean. However, surely putting an alkali solution near your eye is potentially harmful? Anyone tried this?

[Lucy]

Where did you see this? Who wrote about it? I've never heard of it in 8 years on dry eye/lasik boards. Not for me. I know you can use baking soda to brush your teeth, to use as a cleaning product for counters etc when mixed with water. Not on my eyes for sure, I have enough problems.

If this has some merit, maybe you can post a link? Thanks.

[Rebecca Petris]

It's listed on dryeyepain.com under compresses:

Click here and scroll down to compresses

[Lucy]

Rebecca, thanks for bringing this link forward. It tells about baking soda compresses, vinegar compresses and interesting other things. Good reading and when I have a few minutes, I'll try each of the above compresses!

Wouldn't it be something if baking soda compresses fixed our eyes? Or-vinegar?