When I'm examining the front surface of the eye in the slit lamp microscope, I'm carefully evaluating your eyelids, lashes, conjunctiva, and cornea.  The cornea is the clear tissue that acts as the window for light entering your eye -- because it is clear light penetrates unobstructed through your pupil and onto the retina for visual processing.  But when the cornea is not...

Red, itchy, watery, inflamed eyes with clogged meibomian glands.  Sound familiar?  Ocular rosacea is very similar to Meibomian Gland Dysfunction/Posterior Blepharitis from my most recent dry eye post, and in fact some would consider it a subset of the same disease.  To draw on a personal example, I recently had a patient that had been treated by several different OD's for dryness.  He told...