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Eye Crusties Nothing Gross!

Waking up in the morning, you will often find 'stuff' in the corners of our sleepy peepers. It's named 'crusties', 'matter', or even 'eye boogers'. Where do crusties come from?

Eye gunk is actually dried-up rheum. Rheum is the natural discharge of the eye, nose or mouth during sleep, in the form of thin slime. Rheum from the eyes is made of a combination of mucus, tears, dust, and dead skin cells from the eyelids.
When are you wide awake and blinding, rhoem is continually washed over by your tears. At night, dryness in your eyes causes the rheum to build up overnight inside the corners of the eyes or even along the eyelashes. That what you find as eye crusties is normal, unless you experience a large amount of crust (until our eyelashes are glued shut) or if there is pus in the discharge. Either or these symptoms may indicate eye problems like  conjunctivitis or dry eye.

Dry or wet?
The amount and texture of your eye crusties actually don't depend on how much sleep you've gotten or how big your eyes are! Here are the determining factors:

• The crusties are crumbly if your eyes tend to be dry: the tear film does not carry enough liquid.
• If you have allergies, you tand to have more mucus, which makes for wetter, gunkier eye crusties.
• If you were contacs, you are prone to forming more eyes crusties because the lenses irritate the surface of you eyes, so they produce more mucus to protect themselves.
• If the door air is dry, you may also wake up with more eye crusties.

May it usefull. Thanks :D