Resources

Key overview

  • Seventy-five guides in ten sections, grouped by the question they answer rather than the date they were written.
  • If you don't yet know which mechanism is driving your symptoms, start with Dry Eye Treatment — that determines everything else.
  • Most dry eye is evaporative: the oil layer fails rather than tear volume being too low.
  • None of this replaces an eye examination. Sudden or severe symptoms, or any change in vision, need a clinician.

Meibocare is a New Zealand eye care company, and this is where we keep what we know. Seventy-five guides, grouped into ten sections by the question they answer rather than the date they were written.

If you are at the beginning of this and unsure what you are dealing with, start with Dry Eye Treatment — it covers how to identify which mechanism is driving your symptoms, which determines everything that follows.

Sections

  • Dry Eye Treatment — Every treatment that works, what each one actually does, and how to tell which applies to you. (16 guides)
  • Meibomian Gland Dysfunction & Heat Therapy — The blocked-oil-gland mechanism behind most dry eye, and the heat therapy that treats it. (20 guides)
  • Eyelid Hygiene — Cleaning the lid margin properly: why it matters, how to do it, and what to use. (4 guides)
  • Demodex & Blepharitis — Eyelid mites, inflamed lid margins, and the evidence behind treating them. (15 guides)
  • Omega-3 & Eye Nutrition — What you swallow, how it reaches the tear film, and how long it takes. (10 guides)
  • Screens & Digital Eye Strain — Why screens dry your eyes, and what changes at your desk actually help. (1 guides)
  • Dry Eye Through Life — Hormones, age, medication and systemic disease — the drivers that change over a lifetime. (4 guides)
  • Contact Lenses & Dry Eye — Wearing lenses comfortably when your tear film is already struggling. (2 guides)
  • Eye Surgery & Recovery — Dryness before, during and after LASIK, cataract and eyelid surgery. (2 guides)
  • Styes & Chalazions — Lumps on the eyelid: what they are, what clears them, and when to get help. (1 guides)

A note on what this is for

These pages are written to be useful whether or not you buy anything from us. Where a Meibocare product is genuinely the answer to something, we say so and link to it; where it is not, we say that too. If your symptoms are severe, came on suddenly, or involve any change in vision, see an optometrist or ophthalmologist rather than reading further.