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“Unsafe treatment practices are still prevalent in the villages. Trichy: Can breast milk or hen’s blood be used to treat eye infections. Breast milk and hen's blood are the ones that are commonly used by them to treat eye infections – both of these do not have even one positive effect in the treatment. If at all they have an effect on the cornea, it is in a bad way,” Manimegalai told TOI. “The so-called native treatments – including the usage of tongue to remove foreign body – can lead to fungal infections which are very hard to treat..