Optometrist Dr. Bridget Anderson joins The Doctors to weigh in on the TikTok trend of eye fishing or mucus fishing. She shares there’s a condition where the eye produces excess mucus and a person will ...

Your body naturally makes mucus to protect organs like lungs and eyes. But infections, allergies and pollution can boost ...

Hopefully you’ve had the foresight to avoid this one. “Mucus fishing” is the latest gross-out TikTok trend, in which users force out gunk from their irritated eyes using Q-tips and their own fingers ...

Eye boogies Eye boogies, or rheum, are very common, Anderson says. They include a combination of dead skin cells, oil and mucus from the eyes. “Eye mucus is normally produced from the body to keep the ...