Eye pain and Eyeballs Burning is a common problem with a wide range of causes. If it feels like your eyeballs are on fire, it could be a sign of several conditions, ranging from minor to very serious.
A common cause of combined eye burning, itching, and discharge is an eye infection. Common causes of eye infections include:
- viruses, such as the herpes simplex virus, which causes cold sores and can also be spread to the eye,
- bacteria,
- a fungus or parasite (contaminated contact lenses can be carriers of these),
- using expired eye drops,
- wearing unclean contact lenses,
- wearing contact lenses for an extended period,
- sharing contact lenses with another person.
The most common eye infection is conjunctivitis (infection of the conjunctiva), also known as pink eye. Conjunctivitis is highly contagious if it’s caused by a virus or bacteria. It can also be caused by allergies or a chemical or foreign substance entering the eye. The infection causes severe itching and watering in one or both eyes, along with discharge that often leaves a crusty material in the eye corners and on the eyelashes. In newborns, a blocked tear duct is the most common cause.
Some causes of burning eye pain resolve on their own, but in some cases, they can lead to lasting vision damage if they’re not quickly treated by a medical professional for example: –
1. Dry eye syndrome
Dry eye syndrome happens when your eyes don’t have the moisture/tears they need to work properly. Poor lubrication contributes to dry eyes. This not only causes burning, but also eye redness, sensitivity to light, mucus around the eyes, and eye fatigue.
Different factors can trigger dry eyes. These include wind and smoke exposure, allergies, and working at a computer. One may also develop dry eyes if she/he has certain conditions like arthritis, or if a person take allopathic drug like antihistamine, decongestant, antidepressant etc.
Symptoms of dry eye syndrome:
Lifestyle changes, such as using a humidifier and drinking enough water, can also be beneficial.
2. Infections
Eye infections can cause eye pain, redness, and itching depends on the type of infection and severity.
Common eye infections include:
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Conjunctivitis:
Conjunctivitis is a bacterial or viral infection commonly known as “pink eye” that causes eye redness, itching, lachrymation/watering, and discharge. It is contagious and very easy spread to others.
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Keratitis:
Keratitis happens when cornea (the see-through tissue at the front of your eyeball) gets infected or injured. It causes eye redness, eye pain, and blurred vision. Keratitis requires urgent medical attention because it can lead to vision loss if it’s not treated. 
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Endophthalmitis
Endophthalmitis is a severe eye infection inside your eyeball that causes intense eye pain, eye swelling, blurry vision, and eye discharge. This condition is a medical emergency — treatment with D Eye drops is usually needed quickly before vision loss starts to occur.
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Blepharitis
Blepharitis causes inflammation of the eyelids. A clogged oil gland at the base of your eyelashes can trigger this condition. Other accompanying symptoms include watery eyes, itchy eyelids, flaking around the eyes, sensitivity to light, and you may lose your eyelashes.
Blepharitis isn’t contagious, but it can become a chronic condition.
3. Allergies
Around 40 percent patients experience some kind of eye irritation that results from allergies to environmental irritants, like pollen, mold, animal dander, or air pollution like smoke, smog etc.
Some allergic reactions may only affect eyes, but many patients with allergies also experience a stuffy nose and other respiratory symptoms.
Allergy symptoms that can affect the eyes include:
- Itching
- Burning
- Redness
- Lacrimation/Watering
Allergies can be temporarily controlled with allopathic oral antihistamines or can be permanently treated with Homeopathic medication especially D Eye drops.
4. Contact lenses
Wearing contacts that are old, dirty, or the wrong prescription can also cause pain and burning.
Not cleaning your contact lenses correctly or wearing old contact lenses can both lead to a condition called contact lens-induced conjunctivitis (buildup dust or other external substances on your contact lenses).
Symptoms include:
- Itching
- Redness
- Blurred vision
- A feeling like something is in the eye
- Strands of mucus in the eye.
5. Nerve pain
Nerve pain can happen when the optic nerve, located behind the eye swells because of inflammation. This can cause severe pain in the back of the eye. 
Nerve pain in the eye typically only affects one eye at a time.
Symptoms often include:
- Pain that’s worse when move the eye
- Vision loss in one eye
- Vision loss in one specific area, such as peripheral (side) vision or center vision
- Loss of ability to see colors (color blindness)
- Seeing flashing lights in the affected eye.
Allopathic doctors can only prescribe steroid drugs to help reduce the swelling and relieve pain and discomfort, but those steroids cannot treat the cause of pain because in some cases, eye nerve pain is a symptom of another underlying condition such as multiple sclerosis, and here patient needs proper Homeopathic treatment not just relievers.
6. Chemical irritation
Irritated or damaged from exposure to any types of chemicals that are common in everyday life, such as:
- Soaps
- Shampoos
- Cleaning products
- Smoke (cigarettes, vaping devices, fireplaces, or wood smoke etc)
- Acid or alkali solutions
- Chlorine in pools or spas
Symptoms of chemical irritation include:
- Eye redness
- Eye pain
- Eye irritation
- Swelling of the eyelids
- Blurry vision
- Having difficulty keeping your eye open
- A feeling like something is in your eye
- Vision loss
Treatment for a chemical irritation should start with washing the substance out of eye (at home it’s better if wash with natural milk).
Then start treatment according to severity of the irritation.
You might not need treatment for mild irritation by substances like shampoo, soap etc.
7. Eye injuries
When an object strikes your eye or comes in direct contact with your eye, it can result in a scratch or injury to the surface of the eye called a corneal abrasion.
Symptoms of eye injuries can include:
- Eye pain,
- Lacrimation/Watery eyes,
- Eye redness,
- A feeling like something is in your eye,
- Sensitivity to light,
- Headache.
8. Snow blindness (photokeratitis)
Overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays can cause a sunburn on your eyes. This can lead to eye burning, redness, sensitivity to light, headaches, blurry vision, and temporary vision loss.
9. Ocular rosacea
This condition causes inflammation around the eyes, along with eye burning, itching, and redness. A blocked eyelid gland or eyelash mites can bring on this condition. Ocular rosacea can occur in people who have the skin condition rosacea, as well as those who don’t have this condition.
10. Pterygium (surfer’s eye)
With pterygium, a lump develops on the eyeball. Sometimes, it can invade the cornea and interfere with vision. Although a benign growth, surfer’s eye can cause a variety of symptoms from burning eyes to the sensation of a foreign object in the eyes. A doctor can surgically remove the growth, but it may grow back.
11. Eye strain
If your eyes burn after staring at a bright computer screen, you could have eye strain. Other symptoms include double vision, watery eyes, dry eyes, and sensitivity to light. Eye strain can also develop after driving long distances, and after exposure to dry air.
What to do in case of emergency
Wash your eyes with distilled water or luke warm water or its better if wash with natural milk immediately if any chemicals splash into them.
Visit a doctor, ophthalmologist, or other eye specialist if you have any symptom(s) like:
- your vision is changing
- you have eye pain
- your eyes are swollen
- you have eye discharge
- your eyes are crusting
- your eyelids are sticking together
- you’re seeing flashing lights, shadows, or other visual disturbances
- you have any eye symptoms that last longer than a week
Burning eyes diagnosis
Burning eyes may improve with home remedies and a few simple adjustments. If symptoms worsen or continue, see an optometrist or an ophthalmologist. You should also see a doctor if other symptoms appear with burning eyes. These include:
- eye floaters,
- double vision,
- blurry vision,
- eye discharge.
Visual acuity test to check for loss of vision. And if patient have discharge or crusting around his/her eyes, doctor should take a fluid sample to check for bacteria, fungi, or allergens.
Also use the Schirmer’s test to evaluate tear production (low tear volume can cause burning and stinging).
Treatment Options
Allopathic Treatment for Burning Eyes
There is no allopathic treatment for viral eye infections, most of the time, viral conjunctivitis is caused 
by the same viruses that cause the common cold; these cold viruses don’t currently have any allopathic treatments. According to allopathic theory, symptoms (mild or sever) will resolve on their own in 7 to 10 days.
Bacterial infections
For a bacterial infection, antibiotics are the most common method of treatment. However, you may have to take oral antibiotics to help fight the eye infection if prescription drops aren’t enough. With the use of antibiotic medication, your symptoms will probably start to disappear in just a few days.
Viral Infections
In rare cases, other viruses like the herpes simplex or varicella-zoster virus can be involved, which can cause more serious infections. These viruses do have antiviral treatments, but these treatments can only be used for these specific types of viral infections.
Allergies
To treat pink eye caused by an allergen, your healthcare professional will probably prescribe an antihistamine to stop the inflammation.
Loratadine and diphenhydramine (Benadryl) are antihistamines that are available as over-the-counter medications. They may help clear your allergic symptoms, including allergic pink eye. Other treatments include antihistamine eye drops or anti-inflammatory eye drops. Using steroid eye drops may also relieve eye inflammation and itching.
If you suspect you have a foreign object in your eye, do not try to remove it yourself. Seek immediate medical help. A doctor can safely remove the object from your eye.
Allopathic Over-the-counter (OTC) eye drops are often enough to relief dry eye syndrome but not treat tear duct plugs permanently.
Homeopathic treatment for Eyeballs Burning
According to Homeopathic theory, symptoms (mild or sever) will not resolve on their own but will migrate deeper in the organ(s)and could cause severe health issues in near future. 
Most important is the point that D Eye-eye drop has both anti-viral anti-biotics properties and can help and heal almost all of above-mentioned problems and diseases. Here is some other Homeopathic medicine for burning eyeballs available in the world:
1- Apis Melifestida
Lids swollen, red, edematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot. Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, oedema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes. Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. Styes, also prevents their recurrence.
2- Pulsatilla Pratensis
Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse lacrimation and secretion of mucus. Lids inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.
3- Aconitum Napellus
Eyes red and inflamed, with deep redness of the vessels, and intolerable pains. Profuse lacrimation. Heat and burning in the eyes, with pressive and shooting pains, especially on moving the balls. Swelling of the eyes.
Dilated pupils. Lids feel dry, hard, heavy, sensitive to air. Red, hard swelling of the lids. Eyes sparkling, convulsed, and prominent. Look fixed. Cannot bear the reflection of the sun from the snow; it causes specks, sparks, and scintillations to dance before the eyes. Photophobia or sometimes strong desire for light. Black spots and mist before the eyes. Disturbed by flickering; fears he may touch others passing by.
Vision as if through a veil; difficult to distinguish faces; with anxiety and vertigo. Sudden attacks of blindness. A sensation of drawing in the eyelids with drowsiness. Ophthalmia, very painful, with blear eyedness, or from foreign bodies having come into the eyes (dust, sparks), from operations.
4- Mercurius Solubilis and Eyeballs Burning
Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire; foundrymen. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.
5- Arsenicum Album
Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Oedema around 
eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.
6- Allium Cepa
Red eyes. severe burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive to light (photophobia). Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids.
7- Phosphorus
Cataract. Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes. Black points seem to float before the eyes. Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight. Letters appear red. Atrophy of optic nerve.
Oedema of lids and about e eyes. Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes. Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco, Pain in orbital bones. Paresis of extrinsic muscles. Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glaucoma. Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells. Degenerative changes where soreness and curved lines are seen in old people. Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision.
8- Euphrasia Officinalis
Catarrhal conjunctivitis; discharge of acrid matter. The eyes lacrimation all the time. Acrid lachrymation; bland coryza. Discharge thick and excoriating. Burning and swelling of the lids. Frequent inclination to blink. Free discharge of acrid matter. Sticky mucus on cornea; must wink to remove it. Pressure in eyes. Little blisters on cornea. Opacities. Rheumatic iritis. Ptosis.
9- Natrum Muriaticum
Feels bruised, with headache in school children. Eyelids heavy. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes. Give out on reading or writing. Stricture of lacrimal duct with suppuration. Escape of mucus pus when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes appear wet with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing. Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles. Pain in eyes when looking down. Cataract incipient (Secale).
10- Rhuta Grevinalis and Eyeballs Burning
Eyes strain followed by headache. Eyes red, hot, and painful from sewing or reading fine print. Disturbances of accommodation. Weary pain while reading. Pressure deep in orbits. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.
11- Spigelia Anthelmia
Feel too large; pressive pain on turning them. Pupils dilated; photophobia; rheumatic ophthalmia. Severe pain in and around eyes, extending deep into socket. Ciliary neuralgia, a true neuritis. 
12- Belladonna and Eyeballs Burning
Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated (Agnus Castus). Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burning; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmos. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.
13- Argentum Nitricum
Inner canthal swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Corneal ulcers.
14- Osmium
Glaucoma; with iridescent vision. Violent supra and infraorbital neuralgia; violent pains and lachrymation. Green colors surround candle-light. Conjunctivitis. Increase in intraocular tension, dim sight, photophobia.
15- Nux Vomica
Photophobia; much worse in morning. Smarting dry sensation in inner canthi. Infra-orbital neuralgia, with watering of eyes. Optic nerve atrophy, from habitual use of intoxicants. Paresis of ocular muscles; worse, tobacco and stimulants. Orbital twitching radiating towards the occiput, Optic neuritis.
16- Gelsemium Sempervirens
Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them. Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Vision blurred, smoky. Dim-sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles. Bruised pain back of the orbits. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous. Serous inflammations. Albuminuric retinitis. Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis. Hysterical amblyopia.
17- Cyclamen Europaeum
Dim vision, worse on waking, with spots before eyes. Flickering of various colors. Convergent strabismus. Sees countless stars. Diplopia. Disturbance of vision, associated with gastric disturbances.
18- Secale Cornutum
Contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers (throughout the body). Poor eye blood supply or circulation, eye coldness or burning, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene. Hemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood. Debility of eye and/or of all body, anxiety, emaciation. Facial and other muscles twitching.
Headache passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Falling of hair, eyebrows, eyelids; hairs dry and gray. Pupils dilated. Incipient cataract. Eyes sunken and surrounded by a blue margin.
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