Dry Macular

Dry Eyes, Contact Lens And Their Correlation

Simply put, dry eyes are a retinal condition that can cause the eye to appear reddish, and feel rough. Sometimes, this is nothing but a side effect of certain medication that a patient might have been taking, or perhaps an over-the-counter drug currently being used by the patient. For a lot of people who use contact lens, this can turn out to be a bigger problem more complex in nature. For this reason, it is always recommended that people who wear contact lens should use contact drops which contain artificial tears. This enables you to avoid having a dry eye condition over time. Of course, you have to check whether the drops you are using are meant for contact lens, or else they could end up discoloring your lens with use.

A Viscous Cycle Indeed

The sad truth is that long-term use of contact lens is one of the biggest reasons for dry eyes. This is the most common grievance of people who wear contact lens. Recent research has shown us that wearing contact lens and having dry eyes are part of a vicious cycle. One directly causes the other, but since we cannot do without our contact lens as we need them to see properly, we continue to wear them, further aggravating our dry eye syndrome over time. In turn, our dry eye syndrome causes our contact lens to feel uncomfortable, and this results in our rubbing the lenses against the conjunctiva, causing further irritation to our dry eyes.

Dry eye syndrome is also found to be more prevalent in women, which could be as a direct result of hormone fluctuations taking place in a woman's body. A few other reasons include smoking which has been found to largely increase the risk of a person developing dry eye syndrome - another reason to quit.

Eye doctors have also seen that people with dry eyes are more compatible in using contact lens which have lower water content. These theories have been considered incorrect by many, as well as somewhat controversial, since the exact opposite has also been claimed by a few researchers. A few practitioners have also claimed the lens tends to suit people better, especially for those with dry eyes, as it thickens over time. It is also widely theorized that dry eyes and dry macular are also related to each other, though dry macular degeneration is a phenomenon that largely plagues the older age group of Caucasians over other races.

A known cure for having dry eyes is lachrymal or punctual occlusion through which you stop the tears from draining in our eyes to enable us to retain the moisture that occurs naturally in our eyes. This simple procedure takes just a few minutes, and can be comfortably done in your practitioners' office.