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Dry eyes are known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) which do not produce sufficient tears that are mainly essential for the proper vision. This bring on eyes irritations and causes discomfort to the adults. Dry eyes also occur when you get older in age; even poor diet and unhealthy food cause dry eyes, which thereby creates lower haumidity and blink rate results in infection of dry eyes.
Food products like the chocolates, tea and coffee that contains caffeine must be avoided; also you must avoid sitting in front of the computer for a longer time to be safe from dry eyes. Incase, if dry eyes bothers you severely, contact eye specialists; else you can follow the below mentioned different ways to treat dry eyes.
Warm wet cloth helps in relaxing the eyes and thereby gives quick relief; thus, put cleaned soft wet cloth on your eyelids and avoid it from getting blocked by tissues or oil glands. Thus, heat a cup of water to normal condition until it turns warm, wash your hands before dipping a clean white cloth into the warm water, and squeeze the water with your hands.
Then, apply the warm wet cloth on your eyelids and leave for 10 minutes, then remove. Repeat this procedure for few times in a day, which will moisten your eyes. Also, keep your eyes away from dust, wind, and heat, by wearing sunglasses to protect eyes; do not wash or splash the water into the eyes as this may hurt your eyes, and wash your face to avoid further aggravation, and to treat dry eyes.
Eyelid scrubs are essential for the inflammation of dry eyes, and to keep your eyelids clean and free from the bacterial infection and oil secretion around them. Hence, you can use any good scrubs like Johnson’s Baby scrub, dilute in a little warm water, soak cotton swab in this solution and apply around the eyelids. Also, make sure that scrub do not get into your eyes or cause any burns or irritation; leave it for 30 seconds and rinse off; this method will help you stay away from dry eyes.
Cucumbers when used on eyes helps in retaining the fluid and reduces dryness; also, these cucumbers are one among the best way to give good cooling effect to the eyes; also, it contains certain compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
These compounds will help in dilating the blood vessels and allows the white blood cells to reach the eye and cure dryness. Hence, take two fresh pieces of cucumber, keep on the eyes until cucumber loses its water to reduce inflammation and get rid of dry eyes problem.
Tea contains antioxidants which are protective in nature, when placed on the eyes absorbs and penetrates the tissues and thereby relieves the dryness. Catechins are the ingredients which protects the tissues of the eyes.
Thus, after preparing tea, put two cotton balls into the warm tea and soak them well; later, when tea is cooled, place a cotton ball on both your eyelids or leave the tea bags on dry eyes for about 5 minutes to get good relaxation from dry eyes.
Castor oil is a very effective treatment for dry eyes, as it increases the moisture of the eyes as well as diminishes inflammation. Due to its anti inflammatory action, it acts on the organisms which are responsible for the inflammation.
Thus, apply castor oil with a clean dropper by dipping into the oil, and gently rub the clean, neat dropper over eyelids which treat the irritation and moisturize the dry eyes; you can even use cotton swab instead of dropper.
Physicians and researchers have termed tamarind seeds as the best way in the treatment of dry eyes, because of its chemical ingredient called the mucin which is an extension for the major protection of the cornea, that can be used in preparing eye drops for dry eyes.
Hence, you can soak few tamarind seeds in warm water for few minutes, extract them and keep on your eyes to treat your dry eyes and get good relief from such bad condition.
‘Extralube Eye Drops’ has a great soothing and lubricating ointments recommended by many doctors, as it includes Carboxymethyl-Cellulose Sodium which works amazingly good to treat dry eyes; and it is recommended to use this ‘eye drops’ with great care.
You can put 2 drops of this eye-drops, twice a day to cool your eyes, as well as get rid of dry eyes, and remove blurred visions or irritations too.
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