#235: Allergy Treatments to Avoid this Spring
The Worst Thing You Can Do for Your Eyes This Allergy Season. Here’s What to Do Instead
Spring flowers are beautiful, but they can wreak havoc on your eyes. If you’re dealing with itchy, red, watery eyes during allergy season, you might be tempted to grab an over-the-counter antihistamine like Zyrtec, Allegra, Claritin, or Xyzal. But if dry, irritated eyes are also part of the problem, these over-the-counter remedies may make things worse.
Let’s explore a few ways to have eyes that feel great, see great, and look great, even when allergy season is in full swing.
The Antihistamine Mistake
While oral antihistamines are great for sneezing and nasal congestion, they come with a hidden downside: they dry out your eyes.
These medications work by reducing histamine, the chemical your bo...
#204: A Guide to Alleviate Eye Dryness and Irritation
Are you tired of your eyes looking red? Do they sting and burn throughout the day? If you'd like to have eyes that don't feel dry and scratchy, then I'd like to show you a simple process of how you can go back to a time when you didn't even know your eyes were there.
Now, you're probably thinking that this is impossible because you've already tried everything out there. And honestly, I used to feel the same way about my own eyes. But, one day, I broke down all of the information that I was learning in seminars, books, and journals articles, and I found that everything fell into just a couple of categories.
The majority of dry eye sufferers and even many eye doctors don't know what you're about to learn. They all think you that the cure to dry eyes is just to lubricate them. You on...
#199: Your Holiday Shopping Guide, aka your Personal Wish List
The 2023 gift guide for the holidays so that you can get all of your friends with red, sensitive eyes, the best gifts to pamper them this holiday season.
#1) Eyes are the Story Mascara
Now, this is a box of three mini mascara wands. I really love this mascara. It is my favorite. The three mini wands keeps the brush and tube clean. You replace these wands every month. Less bacteria stays in the mascara tube to grow since you dispose of it so often.
Instead of using the big tubes of mascara which you throw out every three months, you get three smaller tubes that you'll replace once a month.
The mascara is formulated with a creamy texture, and it doesn't flake. I find that this mascara lasts all day and it's a nice dark black color. I love it.
#2) twenty/twenty beaut...
#190: How Does Makeup Wear Cause Dry Eye?
Patients come to me every day because they can no longer wear their eye makeup. Their eyes are irritated, red, watery. They apply their makeup and later find it running down their face. They're frustrated because they can't wear the products that they love.
This happens so often. I want to give you three reasons that this is happening:
REASON #1) INFLAMMATION
Some eye makeups cause inflammation to your eyes. Have you ever put your mascara on and then your eyes started to burn? This is happening because the ingredients in that mascara were irritating to your eyes.
Did you know that women apply mascara nine times a week on average? That's more than once a day. Women are applying mascara multiple times a day. And if that mascara contains irritating ingredient, it will cause inflamm...
#189: 5 Eye Care Myths Busted by the TFOS Lifestyle Reports
In 2021, I was invited to serve as a member of the Public Awareness Committee for the TFOS Lifestyle Workshop. This is a global initiative where doctors, scientists, and researchers come together to gather information and make recommendations. The purpose of the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society’s newest workshop was to produce evidence-based education about the lifestyle choices patients are making which cause ocular surface disease.
The purpose of these TFOS workshops is to gather the known evidence-based research and compile it. This helps to gather a consensus from research to help guide treatment protocols. It also answers questions about disease progression and uncovers areas that have not yet been fully researched. In fact, each subcommittee report has a section to suggest whe...
#185: Best Dry Eye Makeup Bag
This week I'm talking about the best makeup kit for Dry Eye Sufferers. I love this makeup kit from twenty/twenty beauty. It just came out during the 2022 holiday season. It's still available on their website and it is so beautiful and has the greatest products in it.
The most important step to any beauty routine is removing your makeup. If you don't yet have a favorite makeup remover, please download the Guide to Makeup Removers for Sensitive Eyes here.
Let's go over each of these four products and review why they are safe to use when you have dry or sensitive eyes. The makeup kit contains: a mascara, an eyeshadow, and lash and brow growth serum, and a special Hypochlorous cleanser.
#1)Clean Sweep Mascara
This mascara is great for those of us who have dry eyes because there aren...
#106: Comfortably Wear Contact Lenses during Allergy Season
I'm going to talk today about a question that my patients ask me all of the time: "How can I wear my contact lenses during allergy season?" "They're itchy, they're red, they run water all over the place, I don't know what to do, I can't get my contacts in!" I've got three tips for you today on how to wear your contact lenses during allergy season.
Tip #1) Take a Break
Tip number one: Take a break! You don't have to wear your contact lenses every day! I know you don't want to hear this, but maybe just during this season, save them for special occasions. Wear them occasionally. Wear them less time during the day, take them out when you get home, or only wear them when you're going out. Take a little break.
Tip #2) Wear a Daily-disposable Contact Lens
Number two, wear a daily-disposabl...
#58: Blinking Exercises Reduce Dry Eye Symptoms
