Sleep is very important to the health of your body, as it is the time that your eyes and your body repairs and rejuvenates themselves.  Often, I find that my patients with the driest eyes are very poor sleepers. 

In addition, with the winter season and the holidays going on right now, it may even be a little bit harder to get on a good sleep schedule.  Here are three tips to help you get good sleep this season, which will keep your eyes feeling healthy and happy.

#1) Set Up a Bedtime Routine

You probably have a time that you wake up every morning.  Maybe it's the same Monday through Friday and a little bit later on the weekends, but you have a strict guideline for waking up in order to get to work on time. 

However, not many adults have a set bedtime routine. And having a set bedtime i...

Most of us are spending more and more time on our digital devices these days.  The new normal has been translated into trying to do everything we enjoy doing, only now we are using a device to do it.

No more in-person conferences, hello Zoom meetings.

No more coffee dates with friends, hello FaceTime.

No more shopping in stores, hello Amazon.

No more dinner at restaurants, hello Door Dash.

No more doctor's visits, hello telehealth.

Some of these things may be blessings, but they are leading to more complications down the road.  We are spending more and more time on digital devices to help us live our lives with less person to person contact. 

When we spend time using computers or digital devices, the number of times we blink per minute decreases.  The complication I see showing up...