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Close-up of a person's eye and lower eyelid margin during a dry eye assessment at a slit lamp

Evaporative vs aqueous deficient dry eye: the d...

Dry eye is usually split into two types. Evaporative dry eye is where tears are produced but evaporate too quickly, almost always because the oil glands in the eyelids are...

Evaporative vs aqueous deficient dry eye: the d...

Dry eye is usually split into two types. Evaporative dry eye is where tears are produced but evaporate too quickly, almost always because the oil glands in the eyelids are...

Person outdoors in spring rubbing an itchy, watering eye near flowering trees

Dry eye vs eye allergies: how to tell the diffe...

The quickest way to separate the two is to ask what the eye is actually doing. Allergy itches. A properly itchy eye, the sort that makes you want to rub...

Dry eye vs eye allergies: how to tell the diffe...

The quickest way to separate the two is to ask what the eye is actually doing. Allergy itches. A properly itchy eye, the sort that makes you want to rub...

Optometrist examining a patient's eyes at a slit lamp during a dry eye assessment

Dry eye tests explained: TBUT, Schirmer and osm...

A dry eye assessment is not one test. It is a short sequence of them, run in a particular order, because each one disturbs the tear film a little more...

Dry eye tests explained: TBUT, Schirmer and osm...

A dry eye assessment is not one test. It is a short sequence of them, run in a particular order, because each one disturbs the tear film a little more...

Woman at a desk pausing to rub her tired, irritated eyes in front of a laptop screen

Dry eye symptoms: gritty, burning eyes and what...

Dry eye rarely announces itself as dryness. The commonest complaints are grittiness, as though there is sand or a stray eyelash you cannot find; burning or stinging; eyes that feel...

Dry eye symptoms: gritty, burning eyes and what...

Dry eye rarely announces itself as dryness. The commonest complaints are grittiness, as though there is sand or a stray eyelash you cannot find; burning or stinging; eyes that feel...

Person sitting at a kitchen table with a notebook, writing down eye symptoms before an optometry appointment

Dry eye self-test: what the OSDI questionnaire ...

A "dry eye self-test" almost always means the Ocular Surface Disease Index, usually shortened to OSDI. It is a short symptom questionnaire, scored from 0 to 100, where a higher...

Dry eye self-test: what the OSDI questionnaire ...

A "dry eye self-test" almost always means the Ocular Surface Disease Index, usually shortened to OSDI. It is a short symptom questionnaire, scored from 0 to 100, where a higher...

Optometrist reviewing an infrared meibography image of a patient's eyelid glands on a screen

Can meibomian glands grow back?

The honest answer is that no treatment has been shown to regrow meibomian glands that have genuinely been lost, and anyone who tells you otherwise is going beyond the evidence....

Can meibomian glands grow back?

The honest answer is that no treatment has been shown to regrow meibomian glands that have genuinely been lost, and anyone who tells you otherwise is going beyond the evidence....