On Friday , I woke up to let my cat out and my eyes itched , so I gave them a good rub . My left eye began to itch like crazy , so I put some " get the red out " eye drops in and went into the other room . My eye started to hurt , so I went into my bathroom about five minutes later and it was VERY swollen and completely red . Even the white part of my eye was swollen and it looked like a blister had formed on the eyeball , with the exception of the iris and pupil .
According to the above context, choose the best option to answer the following question.
Question: What caused the speaker to apply the eye drops , referred to as ' get red out ' ?
Options:
A. They had gone the whole night before with no sleep , and wanted their eyes to be a normal color
B. None of the above choices .
C. They had been smoking marijuana , and were applying the eyedrops to help hide this fact
D. The eye was irritated and they thought that applying the eyedrops might help remedy the situation


D