Dry Eyes: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Dry eyes are irritating. Many people around the globe suffer from this problem. This condition is marked as deficiency of tears in the eyes. If your eyes do not get much tears, it will lose moisture. However, moisture is so important for the eyes. It improves your vision and provides you a feeling of comfort. When a disorder is found in your flow of tears, you experience dry eyes. To prevent eye dryness you have to undergo with some specific kinds of treatments. All these treatment options are effective in improving your eye health.

Signs and Symptoms of Dry Eyes

When you experience dryness in the eyes, you go through several signs and symptoms. Without a proper knowledge you may ignore these symptoms. Read ahead about the possible symptoms of dry eyes.

• Pain
• Light sensitivity
• A gritty sensation
• A feeling of a foreign body or sand in the eye
• Itching
• Redness
• Blurring of vision

However, dry eyes may bring excess flow of tears and it may run down the cheeks. Such condition is little bit of confusing. Usually it happens when your eyes are not getting sufficient quantity of lubrication. The tears which your produce during such situation are mostly water. It does not have the lubricating qualities or the normal composition of tears. It may clear debris from your eyes but would not coat the surface properly. Though you are experiencing such flow of tears, your eyes require proper treatment. Contact an ophthalmologist and ask for the essential treatment options.

Factors behind Eye Dryness

Numerous factors work behind causing dry eyes. Look below and search out the actual reason--

• Dry eyes can be caused due to the reason of an imbalanced treat flow system. It steals away the water from the eyes; hence you feel dryness.
  
  
• It also happens because of drying out of the tear film. Such condition occurs when your eyes are too much exposed to dry air. Usually if you stay in an air condition room for long hours, if heat or other environmental factors affect the eyes, you may meet such eye problem. The natural aging process creates great impact on your health and for your eyes it brings dryness. Women may experience such situation when they are going through their menopause.
  
  
• Some times certain medicines, for example birth control pills or antihistamines cause dry eyes.
  
  
• Even structural problem of the eyes also brings dry eyes. Due to such problem one cannot close the eyes properly and experience dryness in the eyes.

Treatment options for Dry Eyes

Artificial tear drops and ointments
When you visit an ophthalmologist, he will apply artificial teardrops as a primary treatment from dry eyes. There are variety of drops available and you must grab the one which will suit you. So first do some experiments. For treating chronic dryness, your doctor may suggest you using lubricant in form of an ointment. It will keep your eyes lubricated.

Temporary and permanent punctal occlusion
To close the ducts, your doctor may apply a painless procedure where a plug is inserted into the tear drain of the lower eyelid. This procedure is applied for temporary purpose and known as temporary punctal occlusion. If the temporary treatment works well for you, permanent punctal occlusion is done. In this process silicon plugs may be used which will hold tears round the eyes.

Eye drops and medicines
Other eye drops and medicines are also used. These are, restasis eye drop, topical steroids, etc. These drops and medicines increase the production of tears in your eyes.

Surgical procedure
If all the above procedures are failed, surgery may require. Your doctor will give you local anesthesia and then the operation will be performed. After surgery you can enjoy a normal life with the healthy eyes.