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How to recognize dry eye? |
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When tears do not adequately lubricate the eye, one may experience- |
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Pain |
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Light insensitivity |
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Gritty sensation |
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Feeling of foreign body or dust in eye |
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Itching |
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Redness |
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Blurring of vision |
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Treatment of dry eyes- |
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Dry eyes cannot be cured but there are a number of steps that can be taken to treat them. Based on patient to patient ,management includes- |
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Artificial lubricant eye drops and ointment |
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punctal occlusion –its a procedure in which the channels through which tears flow out of the eyes are closed either temporarily or permanently. |
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Sometimes dry eye can be a result of medicine s the patient is already using or a manifestation of systemic diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.These conditions should be ruled out in the diagnosis of dry eye |
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| Dry Eye |
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On Fluorescein staining |
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Temporary punctal occlusion |
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