• Dry Eye Syndrome

  Filed under Disease
  Feb 8

  If your eyes feel sore, itchy, dry, and hot, you should be wary. You can be affected by dry eye syndrome. Dry eye is one eye diseases that often strike women, especially after entering menopause. Dry eye is a condition in which the layer of the eye can not coat the eye ball with a good. Tears is needed as a protective eye ball to prevent eye dryness. When the tears dried, will dry eye balls.

  In general, dry eyes are common in older women. However, if the bare possibility at any age, both men and women, can be found in dry eye. When entering the phase of aging, our bodies produce less and less fat. This deficiency affects the fatty layer of tears, especially the type of fat layer or outer layer of the tear layer. Without this fat layer, the layer of tears evaporate faster, leaving dry areas on the cornea.

  In addition due to aging, there are many factors that can affect the tear layer, such as less friendly climate, air-conditioned, smoke cigarettes, and contact lenses. Contact lenses may absorb the tear layer and causes the protein deposits on the surface of the lens. The higher the water content contact lenses, the higher levels of evaporation.

  Dry eye can also occur due to arthritis or pain mucus. The mouth may feel dry because of reduced saliva production. Therefore, swallowing and eating difficult. The use of chronic medications, such as thyroid medications, drug allergies, and vitamin A deficiency can also make people experience dry eye syndrome. Activity that causes the eyes tend to not blink, like working at the computer, swimming, reading, watching TV, and driving in a long time can cause the eyes to dry.

  There are several symptoms that can be felt by people with dry eyes, among others, the eyes are often itchy, sandy, hot, tired, sore, red, and felt like there was pressure of the eye. If the situation continues, the more eyes feel uncomfortable and become very sensitive to light.

  What a relief from dry eye syndrome is that this disease does not cause interference with the sharp vision or not. However, in very severe cases, cause of dry eye corneal opacities. When this happens, the vision will be disturbed.

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3 Responses to “Dry Eye Syndrome”

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   admin said on February 9th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

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