Eyelashes get caught in my eye?

For some reason very often i will get an eyelash in my eye, but I normally find that if I blink alot or touch my eye it will come out of the tear duct bit. Problem is that something got caught in my eye today and i think it was an eyelash again, i blinked a lot and nothing happened so then without thinking I rubbed it because it hurt and now I have a red blotch near the coloured part of my eye (the iris I think) and it feels slightly itchy. I used eye drops. Am I supposed to just continuosly wash it out with water throughout the day?