According to statistics, more than 40% of people suffer from it at some point, so it would be appropriate for you to take into account the following information both to prevent it and to avoid it altering your quality of life.

In addition, as we will explain in the following sections, prevention and early diagnosis are two of the best solutions for this disease.

Below we review the most common dry eye disease and the most commonly used options to overcome this annoying anomaly.

The Vicious Circle Of Dry Eye Disease

You surely already know that the most common symptoms are a feeling of grit, burning, redness, heavy eyelids, sensitivity to light or thinking that you have something strange inside your eye. This disease is caused by a problem in any of the following parts of the eye.

Meibomian glands

They are responsible for producing the oily component that ensures that the eyelids have the necessary lubrication and that the water in the tears does not evaporate.

Tear Glands

They focus on generating watery tears to maintain the correct hydration of the eyeball.

Goblet Cells

They produce mucin, the substance that covers the conjunctiva and cornea (the white part of your eye). These cells are located in the conjunctiva.

The usual thing is to go to the pharmacy to request some product that helps you relieve dryness, which becomes a temporary solution that still does not address the true causes of the illness in parallel. This situation can be too long, which ends up becoming a vicious circle in which the symptoms seem to disappear when, in reality, they are increasing.

Causes of Dry Eye

Apart from the abnormality in any of the areas mentioned above, it is essential to keep in mind that you can develop this disease in the cases we analyze below. Pay attention to them so that it is easier for you to detect the possible causes and trust a good ophthalmologist to begin with the most effective treatment for your particular case.

Wearing contact lenses a long time

If you are wearing lenses for a long time and don’t remove them, then it will react very badly to your eyes. This can cause symptoms of the aforementioned .

An unsuitable environment

Your workplace may lack humidifiers and be too dry. If you work outside, you may also be affected by external agents such as heat, dust or pollution.

Smoking

Tobacco smoke contributes, with its toxic compounds, to drying out the eye more than necessary.

Various diseases

In many cases, symptoms of rheumatic, skin or thyroid-related diseases include increased dryness in the eye.

Menopause

The drop in hormones directly affects the eye’s ability to maintain adequate levels of moisture.

Being over 50 years old

In the case of women, this factor is combined with the above. In the case of men, it is also common to begin to experience the discomfort described above.

Flying frequently

When you live in a closed room or home and stay for a long time in an air conditioning environment or go outside in the high temperature of sun then your eyes can cause dryness.Because there are many particles that unhide from you that you cannot see in air. These particles cause redness, tears, and types of itchings.

Blepharitis

If you are feeling inflammation and discomfort in your eyeball then don’t get late at home and do not wait, go to an eye specialist and consult with him immediately. A good specialist should analyze the reason for this and conclude whether this is the cause of dry eyes.

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