Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center 950 15th Street Downtown or 1 Freedom Way Uptown Augusta, GA 30904 (706) 733-0188 Visit the Augusta VA Medical Center on the web Note: This hospital offers care to United States Military Veterans. Contact the United State Veterans Administration for assistance.
Other slang terms used to describe eye discharge include eye boogers, eye mattering, eye gunk and eye pus. Sometimes called rheum, eye discharge has a protective function, removing waste products and potentially harmful debris from the tear film and the front surface of your eyes.
What your SNOT says about your health: Yellow mucus means you have a cold while black gunge is a sign of a fungal infection. Many of us have been struck with an unexpected sneeze and been caught without a tissue. And in that case we are faced with a dreaded thing; our own mucus.