A foreign object in the eye is any substance or object that shouldn’t be there, such as dust, wood, metal, an insect, or glass. Symptoms include:

• Sharp pain
• Burning and irritation
• Feeling like there’s something in your eye
• Watery and red eye
• Scratchy feeling when blinking
• Blurred vision or loss of vision
• Sensitivity to bright lights
• Bleeding into the white of the eye