Prevention is far better than treatment and you should take care of your eyes before any thing happens to them. If something goes wrong you should seek medical advice as soon as possible and avoid postponing visiting your eye doctor. You should keep washing your eyes for a period of time until you feel that all the chemicals have been removed or buffered. Then you need to seek medical advice as soon as possible. The earlier you see the eye doctor the less complications can happen to the eye.
Foreign bodies cause a lot of irritation and discomfort and can lead to serious infections.
Avoid rubbing your eyes if a foreign body goes into your eyes and try to wash your eyes to get rid of the foreign body. Rubbing your eyes produces abrasions and damages the outer coat of the eye. Your eyes can be injured with something sharp such as metals, tree-branches or while playing with your kids. All these can cause corneal abrasions. If that happens don t take it easy and visit your eye doctor as soon as you can.