no no no, they gets oxygen supply from the back of your eyelids mostly. otherwise you’d have to keep your eyes open when you sleep.
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nialv7@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Wait, so what are the bliod vein things in the eyes if not supplying the eyes
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
Also your immune system will attack your eyes if it knows they’re there. Eyes are weird.
Karjalan@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Well that’s just terrifying
zerodawn@leaf.dance 4 hours ago
It’ll do the same to a man’s balls, too
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Here’s how fucked up it is imagine the only difference between having eyes and not having eyes is one tiny small area that if it breaks at any moment the immune system can “find” your eyes which is why eye damage needs to be treated right away. One tiny barrier keeps your eyes from being identified and if that breaks your worst nightmare.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
New phobia unlocked
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s also why certain contact lenses can’t be worn overnight or for long periods of time because they aren’t as breathable. At least that’s what my eye doctor said when I got them.
LikeableLime@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Yep and if you wear them for too long your body will grow new blood vessels to supply your oxygen-starved eyes with what they need. These new blood vessels can cover your retina and can lead to blindness.
Learned that one by sleeping in daily disposable contacts for a while and losing a significant portion of my peripheral vision.
CybranM@feddit.nu 19 hours ago
Oh damn, did not know that was a risk
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
That’s correct. It’s generally recommended for lenses to have at least over 100 Dk/t for sleep and they need to be approved for that. Dk/t is the measured oxygen transmission through the lens material, the higher, the better. I would not recommend lenses with Dk/t of 30 and under even for daily wear as they starve eyes of oxygen. Especially since there are very affordable ones with very high Dk/t like Miru and Biofinity (around 160 iirc).
angrystego@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
- heavy breathing *
Hugin@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Quit using up all the oxygen.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
So like … Swim goggles will suffocate my eyes? 😦
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Eventually, yeah. I had an issue with contacts when I was younger as I have to wear thick toric lenses, which allow very little oxygen through. I would wear them way too long, and I was warned that continuing to do so could cause eventually cause blindness
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
how come when I don’t blink it hurts and my eyes get red?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 40 minutes ago
It means you’re stoned af and forgot to blink
buggybug@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
i came, i saw, i absorbed oxygen directly from the air
glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
read it up on cornea wikipedia, seems to be true :o
Instead, oxygen dissolves in tears and then diffuses throughout the cornea to keep it healthy.[5] Similarly, nutrients are transported via diffusion from the tear fluid through the outside surface and the aqueous humour through the inside surface.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So what you’re saying is, my eyes are also lungs?
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
More like a giant alveolus. But inside out. With a giant sphincter in the middle. That poops light.
spongebue@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Boy, after getting a notification with this reply I had a hell of a time trying to figure out what I could have possibly said to spur it
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Fun fact: your intestines are also lungs. Or maybe more accurately, lungs evolved from intestines. It turns out, you can oxygenate people by sticking an oxygen supply up their ass. Which is a possible treatment for people who have suffered respiratory failure.
Proof that I’m not just blowing hot air up your butt, except maybe I am: science.org/…/mammals-can-breathe-through-their-i…
shalafi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
10% of our regular oxygen intake is through the skin.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Source?
Donkter@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Mostly ocean flora but there’s a lot that comes from the Amazon rainforest too.
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
he loves to breathe the oxygen
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
What about buttholes?
T156@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They do have blood, as any ER doc could tell you.
However, they can also breathe in a manner of speaking. Enough that it’s proposed as a possible method to keep someone alive if their lungs don’t work.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
I honestly did not expect this answer.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
They’re just full of shit.
7eter@feddit.org 16 hours ago
today I learned
jodanlime@midwest.social 1 day ago
They don’t need oxygen when I’m sleeping?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
It is the only part of the body without a blood supply. Instead, it receives nutrients via aqueous humor (the liquid between the cornea and vitreous).
Instead, oxygen dissolves in tears and then diffuses throughout the cornea to keep it healthy.[5] Similarly, nutrients are transported via diffusion from the tear fluid through the outside surface and the aqueous humour through the inside surface.
And because that seemed lacking still and I’m too dumb to figure it out ChatGPT’s response:
The palpebral conjunctival blood vessels and the capillaries of the eyelids supply oxygen to the tear film behind closed lids. Oxygen diffuses from these vessels into the cornea.
dingus@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
My brother sleeps with his eyes party open. He must be eye oxygenmaxxing. Superior eyeballs.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
You have a high concentration of blood vessels on the inside of your eyelids, which are kept in contact with the cornea by tears. It doesn’t only let oxygen through, some parts of blood (like lymph and antibodies) can also travel through the tears and into your cornea.
whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Surely the oxygen and carbon dioxide also diffuse through the aqueus humor and surrounding sclera.
individual@toast.ooo 21 hours ago
speak for yourself
Gork@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
How does it not get damaged if we’re asleep and our eyes are closed?
hancock@retrolemmy.com 3 hours ago
Tear fluid also provides oxygen
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s crazy
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Lasic surgery first cuts the cornea leaving a little flap. The doc peals the eyeball then they shoot a laser beam in various places in a pattern to ablate the lens.
Then they put the flap back over like nothing happened, but that flat will never heal. That is why I will not be getting lasic thank you.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 18 minutes ago
eyecenteroftexas.com/…/does-corneal-flap-heal-las…
Why does this article from 2019 say otherwise?
Kimjongtooill@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
SMILE uses laproscopy, so the slit is only 3mm instead of 20mm for LASIK. Supposedly like a 3 day recovery time or maybe 2.
Also, does it really never heal?