If it is just the child has some sleepy eye crud stuck to eyelashes, then a warm washcloth or a shower/bath should help open eye.
But, If it isn't the sleepy eye crude----You might NOT want to open the eye.
I would make an emergency Peditrician apt, or empergency eye Doc apt!!
If it has some particle in there, I doubt you will have the tools and expertise to remove the product, if he got his cornia damaged by a sharp object, You wont be able to see it with the naked eye.
Eyes are a serrious deal, we only get 2.
It is a wink.
We think we see things, that our eyes are wide open, but we are ignorant and oblivious, our eyes shut.
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Dolphins are reputed to be able to shut down one side of their brain and sleep. On wakening, they will shut down the other half. (They still have to breath air.) So, one eye open at a time is probably correct.
Tower Bridge
No you will not go blind but you will only experience pain sometimes when you twitch hard because your eyelids will slightly alter your eye lenses for a short period before you open your eye.
Shut Eye - 2009 was released on: USA: March 2009 (Westchester Film Festival)
how do you know there's a mark if the eye's swollen shut? is there something on the eyelid?
The cast of Open Call - 2012 includes: Miranda Childs Todd Montesi
To sleep.
The cast of Shut Eye - 2005 includes: Thuy Dang Andrew Ma Shawna Washabaugh