Let's see what will work over-the-counter for this dry eyes.
Treating dry eyes depends on the cause. Some conditions can be managed or reversed.
Others require a more detailed evaluation by a healthcare professional.
Treating dry eyes is usually done through the means listed below.
We encourage you to take a look at them and then we will use the approaches available over-the-counter to see what will work best for your dry eyes by answering a few questions.
Last updated by pharmacist on : 09/10/2014 at 06:52:pm
Of these, the approaches available over-the-counter are:
- Lubricant eye gels or ointments
- Artifical tears
- Eye lid scrubs
- Taking omega3 vitamins
- Applying a warm compress
Let's use this information to choose a good over-the -counter remedy.
This assumes mild or occasional dry eyes symptoms.
Obviously artificial tears will be part of your dry eye management.
It can be overwhelming looking at all the dry eyes drops on the shelves. Which should you get?
Let's take a look.
But before then, I encourage you to see how the tear film work by tapping on the "FYI" button below.
This will also make it easier for you to reach a good decision choosing a dry eye relief drops.
When you've digested this information, tap "Continue" to see how we can choose a good artificial tears drops.
This assumes you used the OSCDI index to analyze your dry eyes.
Hope you are seeing a doctor for this.
A good choice of artificial tears eye drops would be thicker or more viscous eye drops. They must be preservative free.
Disadvantage with thicker drops is blurring of the eye because they are more viscous.
Even when used at night, you may still experience blurred vision for up to an hour on waking up in the morning.
Anyway, if you have severe dry eyes, blurring effect is the last thing you want to worry about.
Also use 1 drop or 2 at the most. Anything more will cause sticky eyelids.
Give a brief description.
Choose watery drops during the day + a night time gel.
Make sure they are preservative-free.
Elaborate a little more.
Explain blepharitis.
Look for artifical tears containing oily ingredients.
These stabilize natural oils in the eye.
List examples of artificial tears containing oily ingredients.
Explain how the eyes may feel.
You will need a night time gel.
Stick with the gel and not the ointment.They are two different things.
A night time gel helps prevent erosion of the cornea while you sleep. Know that your eyes move around while you sleep.
A night time gel would help avoid a painful eye on waking.
Also the lacrimal glands that produce the watery layer of the tear film slows down while sleeping.
Make sure you stick with preservative-free or vanishing preservatives.
Single-use are preservative-free. Multi-dose bottles contain preservatives.
But if the preservative is not benzalkonium chloride, no difference between the dosage forms. Either one is fine.
You should have this as part of your overall dry eyes management program.
This include lid scrub, warm compress, lid massage.
They help to improve the secretion and flow of oil from the meibomian glands thereby reducing the evaporation of your tears.
They also help to keep the eyelids healthy while preventing infections.
You can buy an eye compress or get a clean face cloth, run it under hot water and hold it on your eyes for about 5 minutes.
Try doing this before going to bed and on waking up in the morning.
Use a cold or warm compress for relief.
Cold compress:
You don't have to go running to the drug store to get one. Just get a plastic sandwich ziplock bag, fill with water about 1/3 of the way, add 5 to 7 ice cubes, zip it shut and place over the eyes for relief.
Warm compress:
You don't have to run to the pharmacy to get this either. Run a face wash cloth under hot water and hold it on your closed eyes for up to 5 minutes. Should give you some relief.
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
Taking care of dry eyes require different approaches.
Things to remember:
We encourage you to see an eye doctor once you suspect a dry eye especially if you used the tool we provided (Ocular Surface Disease Index© (OSDI©)).
At least see what is causing it, discuss treatment approaches, and guess what? You will get free samples of eye drops to try.
You may need to use the eye drops for up to a month before you can see if it is working for you or not.
Stay away from eye drops with the preservative benzalkonium chloride.
Stick with gels or liquid gels rather than ointments should you need a night time gel.
Buy the smallest bottle possible. If it is working for you then come back and get some more. Another advantage of seeing an eye doctor. You get to try samples.
Include lid therapy into your dry eyes management routine.
Consider an omega-3 fatty acid supplement. You may find relief by supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.
Now, continue and use our over-the-counter dry eye drops comparison table to get information on which eye drops would work best for you.
Last updated by pharmacist on :
09/10/2014 at 08:51:pm
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