Saturday, December 14, 2013

Treatment of Dry Eyes

By Dr. Diana Christensen


It's that time of year when you may start to experience headaches, stuffiness, and dry eyes. Your dry eyes may not be allergy-related, though. At Christensen Eye Care, we see many patients with dry eye syndrome; there is regular dry eye and then there is also contact lens related dry eye. We have several different treatments available that we can use for both of those areas.

For regular dry eye, there is anything from different step treatments; we usually start it out with artificial tears and then take it from there. We can go move to prescription medications if necessary. Your individual needs will be assessed when you come in for an eye exam. There are many different options for that too if you have contact lens related dry eye. We usually begin by giving you different solution to clean the lens better, so that it stays moist longer in the eye.

The causes of dry eye syndrome are varied, with many different factors, anything from hormone changes throughout life, side effects to prescription that you're taking, health control medication is one big one that will affect dry eyes as well as antidepressants. Even different climates or allergies can play a role in the type of dry eyes that we're seeing.

With many different causes, the treatment of your dry eyes may take more than one appointment with our optometrist. Because dry eye has many different causes, multiple visits with your optometrists may be needed to monitor your progress.

We look at all of the possible factors contributing to your dry eyes and then we assess what direction to go in. With many different causes, the treatment of your dry eyes may take more than one appointment with our optometrist. Generally, a series of visits will be needed to conduct follow-up assessments and to gauge if your dry eyes are getting better and improving.|The causes of dry eye syndrome are varied, with many different factors, anything from hormone changes throughout life, side effects to prescription that you're taking, health control medication is one big one that will affect dry eyes as well as antidepressants. Even different climates or allergies can play a role in the type of dry eyes that we're seeing. With many different causes, the treatment of your dry eyes may take more than one appointment with our optometrist.




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