DRY-EYE
If you experience dry, stinging and sore eyes, following with blurry or unstable vision, prolong discomfort even already using eye drops it could be you have a dry eye.
This occurs when your tears are unbalanced or insufficient; tears are made up of multiple layers comprising oil, water and proteins.
The cause for that could be many reasons, such as clogged oil glands, systemic inflammation or even poor diet.
Treat dry eye by supplementing terms with incorrect eye drops provide temporary relief but do not address the underlying issue.
BLEPHASTEAM TREATMENT
Dry Eye Treatment with Steam
The Blephasteam treatment for dry eye provides gentle steam which opens the oil glands and helps improve the quality of tears.
When done regularly and accompanied by gentle expression of the glands, this improves the symptoms of dryness and reduces the reliance on eye drops.
Moreover not all eyedrops are created equally as some provide only temporary hydration whilst others support all layers of the tear film.
Book in to see our Optometrists for a Dry Eye assessment and Blephasteam Treatment today!
NUTRITION & DRY EYE
Balanced diet playing important role on dry eye.
There is now a significant body of evidence supporting the possible role of different micronutrients and nutraceutical products in the treatment of ocular surface diseases, including DES. The effects on the ocular surface of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins A, B12, C, D, selenium, curcumin and flavonoids (Pellegrini et al., 2020).
DRY EYE TREATMENT PRODUCTS
EYE DROPS
Eye drops can help relieve the dry eye and you can find the right eye drops in our practice such as AEON Protect Plus which help relief dry eye for contact lens wearer and Systane Complete for non-contact lens wearer, both of this eye drops are preservative free.
SUPPLEMENTS
Dietary is playing important role for the nutrition and tears production of the eye, but supplement also able to support relief dry eye symptoms. Supplements with Omega-3 such as Thera Tears and Lacritec are recommended to take for balance or support the nutrition of your daily diet.
HEAT MASK
Heat mask also another alternative for relief and soothe dry eye. The Opti-Soothe eye mask works well to soothe and relief by using hydrobeads technology which absorbs moisture from the air and release natural & constant moist heat for your dry eye just simply microwave it for 25 secs