Overwhelmed by over the counter rewetting drop products? You aren't alone. My patients repeatedly come in confused by the selection on the shelf, and often using the completely wrong product for their personal ocular needs. If your eyes are dry, watery, scratchy, irritated, red, filmy or just overall uncomfortable, you likely have dry eye. A trip to your local eye doctor can confirm...
Studies suggest that up to 90% of Americans who work on a computer on a daily basis suffer from dry eye (whose symptoms include burning, redness, watering, and fluctuating vision). The culprit? One of the biggest contributing factors is that we don't blink as frequently as we normally would while at the computer. In fact, we blink about 50% less often, when engaged in...