#181: Best Dry Eye Relief Tips of 2022
At the end of each year, I like to review the blog and find the best tips from the whole year and put them together in one place. This year, choosing just 3 was particularly hard. There were so many great things to talk about this year. So, I may end up doing more than Best of episode.
In this blog, I want to focus on the best dry eye relief tips we talked about this year. There were 3 that stood out to me:
- How to get dry eye relief without using eye drops
- Alternatives to Lash Lengthening Mascara
- Redness relief when you have Dry Eyes
These 3 stand out as giving some great Dry Eye relief tips that can be used all year long. Let's Review:
#1) Can you Get Dry Eye Relief without Using Eye Drops (Blog #171)
Even if you hate putting drops in your eyes, or even touching your eyes in ge...
#180: How to get Dry Eye Relief in the Winter Season
I like to refer to the winter season as Dry Eye Season to my patients. In most parts of the country, winter is the driest season. When the temperature is cold outside, the moisture comes out of the air. Then, we turn our heaters on indoors to combat those cooler temps. Now, the indoor air is dry as well.
It is important this time of year to provide your eyes with extra moisture. I like to think about hydrating my eyes in 3 ways:
Check out these easy steps you can take to get Dry Eye Relief this Winter...
#1) Hydrate from the Inside
Make sure you are continuing to do the things that are good for your eyes and your health during the winter season. Continuing to take your omega 3 fatty acid supplement is a great idea. I hav...
#179: The Best Makeup Looks for Dry Eye Relief
The makeup that you put around our eyes matters. You can look great and take care of your eyes so that at the end of the night, your makeup is not streaming down your face. No one wants to have red and irritated eyes during the party and especially not the next day either.
I've got 4 great products to make your holiday makeup look great. And, it will be healthy for your eyes as well. All you need is: eye shadow, eye liner, mascara, and eye brow gel. You'll be ready to step out to any holiday affair.
#1) Eye Shadow
There are a couple of things to avoid when using eye shadow.
Do not use GLITTERY eyeshadow. The glitter can fall into your eyes and create microscopic scratches on your eye. Your eyes will be red and irritated from it. If you need the glitter to make you FEEL GLAM, us...
#178: Scleral Lenses for Dry Eye Relief
Have you heard about using scleral contact lenses when you have dry eye disease? They're a great idea for dry eye sufferers. Let's review three reasons why scleral lenses work well for patients who have dry eye disease.
#1) The Shape of a Scleral Lens
Scleral lenses are a little larger than a soft contact lens. The lens goes over your eye from the white part of the eye, sclera, to the other side just like a soft contact lens would. But, the difference with a scleral contact lens is its rigid material.
The rigid material gives the lens a fish bowl shape that vaults over the front of your eye. You fill the lens with sterile saline solution. Then when you put it on your eye, the saline bathes your eye in moisture all day long.
The lenses work really well to keep your eyes lubricated an...
#177: 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Happy Holidays! I hope this is a great time of year for you. I understand how hectic gift giving and shopping can be. I want to make it easier for you to choose gifts that you know your friends will love, and they're healthy for their eyes.
This holiday season, give gifts that support good vision. These gifts are great to give tp your mother, your sister, your best friend that would be super special, awesome, and help their dry eyes.
I want everyone with dry eyes to receive the gift of comfortable eyes and good vision. Dry eyes can be soothed and pampered just like sore muscles. I've got some really great gifts that'll help you to pamper not only your loved one, but also your peepers.
#1) Umay Rest
The Umay REST device is portable, convenient, and easy to use. The preset routine...
#176: Thankful for Dry Eye Relief
I wanted to continue to review a few of the new innovations that I am thankful for in 2022. This one is a new prescription medication that was FDA approved almost exactly one year ago. It is used to treat both the signs and the symptoms of dry eye disease. And, that is super important.
Tyrvaya is the first and only nasal spray that's FDA approved to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. It's a nasal spray that we use to stimulate a nerve in the nose which sends a signal back to the eye to tell it to produce a full bodied robust tear. This is not just a reflex tear because something irritated you. The medication helps increase the volume of tears in your eyes. And, it increases the harmony on your eye because it is increasing all of the components of the tears not just add
...#175: Grateful for my Eye Brows
This Thanksgiving Season I want to talk about some of my favorite products. I am thankful to have this particular product in my dry eye tool box, because it makes my brows look great too.
Why do we have Eye Brows?
To protect your eyes! Eye brows are beautifully and perfectly made to catch sweat, debris, and water that may otherwise have fallen into your eyes. They act as a protective barrier. If your eyelashes get become sparse, then there's not enough hair to help catch anything that could be falling into your eyes.
What's the Best Product to use for Beautiful Brows?
Twenty/twenty beauty Full Brows Tinted Gel! It's a brand new product from a trusted Clean beauty source. This product launched in November of 2022. Using this product fills in sparse brows both instantly with color
...#174: Myth #3: There's NOTHING I can do to Treat my Dry Eyes
This is week three of the 3 myths of dry eye disease. If you've missed the other 2 myths, be sure to check out the other blogs: Myth 1 and Myth 2.
Myth#3: There's nothing I can do to treat my dry eye disease.
If you've been Keeping up with the other myths, then you already know that this myth is wrong. There's so many things you can do to treat dry eyes, and some of them are very new. If you've been following me for a while, then you know that I always talk about the four parts to treat dry eye, which is E Y E S. The EYES method gives four pillars of dry eye disease treatment.
Pillar #1) EYES
Step #1 is to treat your eyes. I like to talk about 4-simple steps to treat your dry eyes:
- Hydrate with a Preservative-free Artificial tear - get the guide here
- Harmonize with a lid and la...
#173: Myth #2 All Eye Drops are the Same
We are talking about three myths about dry eye disease. This blog is dedicated to Myth #2: "All dry eye drops are the same." New patients come in to see me all the time and say, "I've tried everything out there." This basically means that they went to the drugstore, and they picked up Visine and one other generic artificial tear. They tell me they tried them both. Their eyes felt great for about five minutes, but returned to the same level of dryness right away.
Even when talking about products that you can buy at the drugstore, not all dry eye drops are the same. There are 3 types of over-the-counter (OTC) products.
#1) Artificial Tears
In fact, even the ones that you get over the counter are different. You can go to the drugstore and buy artificial tears. If they come in a bottle, th...
#172: Myth #1 - Dry Eye symptoms will go away on their own
Today, I'm going to talk to you about the first of three myths about dry eye disease. Stay tuned over the coming weeks for the other two myths.
Myth #1:
Dry Eye Disease symptoms will just go away on their own.
Truth:
Dry eye is a disease. It's called dry eye disease (DED). And, it's chronic and progressive just like other disease that you might have, like diabetes or high blood pressure.
DED is chronic. You will need to treat it for a lifetime. It doesn't just go away on its own. So it needs to be treated long term. It's best to make simple shifts to your lifestyle to treat it. If you make your treatment regimen a part of your daily care routine (like you do for brushing your teeth) it is easy to do it over your lifetime.
Check out the 4-simple steps of daily dry eye care here. ...
