Let's see what will work over-the-counter for your dry eyes.

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Treating dry eyes depends on the cause. Some conditions can be managed or reversed. 

Others require a more detailed evaluation by a healthcare professional.

Take a look at the approaches available for dry eyes management below. Of these, the approach available over-the-counter is Lubrication. Continue to see what will work best for your dry eyes by answering a few questions.



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Lubrication click to expand contents

Punctal plugs click to expand contents

Steroidal eye drops click to expand contents

Restasis® / Xiidra® click to expand contents

Others click to expand contents

 

Of these, the approaches available over-the-counter are:

  1. Lubricant eye gels or ointments

  2. Artifical tears

  3. Eye lid scrubs

  4. Taking omega3 vitamins

  5. Applying a warm compress

Let's use this information to choose a good over-the-counter remedy assuming you used the "grade your dry eye tool" provided by refresh brand to get your dry eye severity OSDI score.

You can get the tool here if you need to. Remember to come back and see what to use over-the-counter.

 


Which of the symptoms listed below are you experiencing right now?
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Which of these apply to your dry eye situation assuming you used the "grade your dry eye" tool.

 











Here you go

 

Selection require a thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops.
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Selection require a watery artificial tears eye drops.
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Selection require a night time lubricant eye gel or ointment.
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Selection require a cold or warm compress.
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Selection require a preservative free artificial tears eye drops.
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Symptoms require a thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops and probably a watery artificial tears eye drops.
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Symptoms require a thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops and a night time lubricant eye gel.
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Symptoms require a thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops and a cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require a thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops and preservative free.
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Symptoms require a watery artificial tears eye drops and a night time lubricant eye gel.
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Symptoms require a watery artificial tears eye drops and cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require a watery artificial tears eye drops and preservative free.
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Symptoms require a night time lubricant eye gel and a cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require a night time lubricant eye gel and should be preservative free.
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Symptoms require a cold or warm compress and preservative free lubricant eye drops
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops and a night time lubricant eye gel.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops and a cold or warm compress
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require watery artificial tears eye drops, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require night time lubricant eye gel, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a cold or warm compress.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Symptoms require thicker or viscous artificial tears eye drops, watery artificial tears eye drops, night time lubricant eye gel, cold or warm compress and a preservative free eye drops.
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Something to prevent?

 

Preventive measures click to collapse contents


1. Stay away from medications that cause dry eyes. Antihistamines, antidepressants, some blood pressure medicines and even birth control pills may cause dry eyes.

2. Blink more often

3. Use eyelid wipes often.

4. Spend some money on Omega-3 oils.

 

All of these?
You must have this dry eye really bad.
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Please see a doctor for this dry eyes.

 

None of these?
We must have left something out.

Oops! We must have left some things out. Please choose what closely align with what you are experiencing and see what we suggest to use over-the-counter.

Thicker / Viscous Artificial Tears click to expand contents

Watery Artificial Tears click to expand contents

Night Time Lubricant Gel click to expand contents

Cold / Warm Compress click to expand contents

Preservative Free click to expand contents

Combination Products click to expand contents

Worth doing click to expand contents

Last updated by pharmacist on 08/29/2018 at 07:14:pm

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