What Are Eye Boogers?
Eye boogers: Not the most glamorous of bodily secretions, but important all the same. Learn why the heck you have sand in your eyes in the morning in this episode of Quick Questions. Hosted...
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So, Mr. Sandman, I asked you to bring me a dream, and you brought me these gross eye boogers. Ok, but, what actually is this goopy junk that gathers in the corners of my eyes while I’m asleep? You might know it as eye boogers, sleepies, dream dust, sleep sand, or the sleep in your eyes. Scientists actually don’t have a standard technical term for this crusty eye residue, but some call it gound or rheum. Which is much less fun to say. Rheum is a term for any thin discharge that comes from mucus-y parts of your body, like your eyes and nose. The kind that comes from your eyes is made up of all kinds of junk, like mucus, dead skin cells, oil, dust, and bacteria. This delightful mixture gathers and dries to form a crusty residue in the corners of your e...
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So, Mr. Sandman, I asked you to bring me a dream, and you brought me these gross eye boogers. Ok, but, what actually is this goopy junk that gathers in the corners of my eyes while I’m asleep? You might know it as eye boogers, sleepies, dream dust, sleep sand, or the sleep in your eyes. Scientists actually don’t have a standard technical term for this crusty eye residue, but some call it gound or rheum. Which is much less fun to say. Rheum is a term for any thin discharge that comes from mucus-y parts of your body, like your eyes and nose. The kind that comes from your eyes is made up of all kinds of junk, like mucus, dead skin cells, oil, dust, and bacteria. This delightful mixture gathers and dries to form a crusty residue in the corners of your e...
