What Causes Dry Eye and how to treat

REJEKINE. You have very dry eyes, irritation or sandy? You can dry eye syndrome is very common and affects people of all ages. It has a higher incidence in the country, windy, dry or dusty.

Dry eye syndrome is a disease in which the tear duct system or in layman's terms a broken system produces tears. It could be that do not produce enough tears or the lipid layer on the aqueous tear film does not produce enough of the meibomian glands.

If the dry eye, mainly because of insufficient lacrimal gland tear, this could mean several things.

First They also Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease, meaning that the antibodies attack you down in your body, tears and saliva glands caused tears, so you feel less and because your eyes are dry and sandy, has a meaning.

Second If you are over 45 years, is the most likely cause of dry eye after menopause. This is because the menopause reduces circulating androgens (estrogen, progesterone and testosterone) in your body, which may contribute to a lack of tear fluid and lipids, so that both aqueous and evaporative cooling of dry eye.

Third Another cause for dry eye watering high doses of oral diuretics, oral H1 antihistamines (allergy medications), anti-cholinergic drugs (eg antidepressants), anti-psychotic drugs, beta blockers, benzodiazepines, and so on.

If the form of evaporative dry eye, especially, it just means that there are fewer or no fat in the aqueous tear film layer, thereby making high-speed drying. This can cause diseases such as anterior or posterior blepharitis, skin diseases, especially acne rosacea or meibomian gland dysfunction can be associated.

Severity of these conditions can vary from mild, where you only need eye drops, eye ointment or a very strong irritation or gels to reduce other areas of the eye may be affected. For example: normally white conjunctiva is red, the cornea will show tiny dots called punctate epitheliopathy (SPK), meniscal tears minimal or absent, and so on. If this happens, you should visit the nearest eye doctor for treatment or referral.

However, here only a simple way to reduce or help you get rid of the mild cases of dry eye.

First means, place a warm compress towels dipped in hot water over the eyes for 5 minutes twice a day for a week or more. It helps liquefy fat dry hard, if the cause of dry eye syndrome is a form of evaporation

Connect your second soap scrub where your lashes with a gentle baby shampoo or soap. It helps to open a blocked gland lipids. Also gently massage the lid is also good.

Third Wear sunglasses to the wind blowing in his eyes and wiped to prevent. Face to remove all electric fan or air conditioner is positioned directly on your face.

4 Eye drops, gels and ointments are very useful.