Don’t use hot water. Your eye, eyelid, and nearby skin are delicate. Don’t spread infection. Use a new washcloth for each wipe if you have an infection like pinkeye.

Distilled water should be used when making eyewashes. A very simple recipe for homemade eyewash is to boil one cup of water with one teaspoon of salt. This liquid can then be used alone as both an eyewash and a nasal rinse. Some recommend adding herbs or tinctures to the liquid.

Salt water, or saline, is one of the most effective home remedies for eye infections. Saline is similar to teardrops, which is your eye’s way of naturally cleansing itself. Salt also has antimicrobial properties. Because of this, it only stands to reason that saline can treat eye infections effectively.

Use an eyecup or a small, clean drinking glass positioned with its rim resting on the bone at the base of your eye socket. Another way to flush a foreign object from your eye is to get into a shower and aim a gentle stream of lukewarm water on your forehead over the affected eye while holding your eyelid open.

Most of these washes are prepared in an isotonic saline solution comprised of purified water, sodium chloride (salt), and other ingredients. A boric acid eyewash can be effective for irrigating eyes exposed to grit or other foreign objects. It can also be used to ease dry, irritated, or burning eyes.

If you keep the screen brightness of your gadget at higher than 50 per cent, you still may not risk a permanent damage but many short term problems, such as digital eye strain, eye irritation and dry and fuzzy eyes.

Furthermore, by adjusting the screen brightness to a proper level that does not cause eye fatigue, you can reduce blue light by a total of 60-70%. Many of the aforementioned blue light blocking glasses only cut up to 50% of blue light, so this is more effective.

Contrary to popular belief, higher brightness as long as it’s not uncomfortable is better. Why? Because brighter light means your pupils are smaller, which increases the depth of field and sharpness of your vision, making it easier for your eyes to focus.

“There’s no benefit in having it any brighter than it has to be.” You can even invert the colors on your screen so that white backgrounds become black, and black text becomes white.

Increasing brightness of an image will light out all colors so the original light ones will become up to white. Increasing contrast on an image will increase the difference between light and dark areas so light areas will become lighter and dark areas will become darker.

Let’s talk about reading on screens. Black text on a white background is best, since the color properties and light are best suited for the human eye. That’s because white reflects every wavelength in the color spectrum.