Contacts for dry eyes

Are there contacts for dry eyes? How do I tell if what I'm experiencing is dry eyes? What can contribute to dry eyes when wearing contact lenses? What can you do, if you experience contact lenses and dry eyes on a day to day basis? Can you wear contact lenses with dry eyes? There are solutions many have found helpful in addressing their need for contacts for dry eyes. Let's examine the answers to these questions.

First we'll look at what symptoms will help you determine if you are experiencing contact lenses and dry eyes, and then some of the causes for this condition. Symptoms include the persistent sensation of a particle in the eye, overall eye discomfort, itching, burning, or stinging. One cause of dry eye can be too little tear fluid being available from your body to lubricate and wet your eye and your contact lenses. Most people produce less tear fluid as they age, and this may have them searching for contacts for dry eyes. Another factor can be a change in the makeup of the tear fluid, allowing tears to evaporate too quickly. Some other causes of contact lenses and dry eyes include being exposed to eye irritants in the environment, side effects from prescription medications like anti-depressants, antihistamines, or oral contraceptives, burns to the eye from heat or chemicals, complications from other health challenges, like arthritis, where dry eyes are more common among those with this disease, allergy symptoms, and sensitivity to chemicals in your contact lense care products.

Looking at the makeup of your tears may further help explain contact lenses and dry eyes. Your tear fluid is made up of 3 layers, an oily layer on the outside to control how quickly the tears evaporate, a middle watery layer to nourish and keep the outer surface of the eye moist, and a mucus layer on the innermost side to provide a stable tear film. If tear fluid makeup changes this can effect how quickly your tears evaporate and make supplemental tear solutions essential.

Your eye doctor can diagnose and treat this condition. And there some things you can do to help yourself. Generally the eye doctor's diagnosis process involves learning about possible causes of your dry eyes including your overall health, any prescriptions you are taking, and environmental factors at work and home. Some other tools they may use to identify if contact lenses and dry eye is a problem for you include diagnostic tools that provide high magnification for viewing your eye, and small pieces of thread or paper along with specially designed dyes to learn the quality and quantity of your tears.

It's important to address contacts for dry eyes because overly dry eyes can eventually harm your eye tissue and may even scar the cornea or surface of your eye. Not only could you experience more eye irritation day to day, you may increase your chances of eye infection if this issue is not properly handled.

Help your contact lenses and dry eyes by first following your eye doctor's instructions for care and treatment. For day to day solutions use eye drops specifically made for contact lenses. Regular eye drops may change how your contact lenses fit temporarily, and may discolor them. Eye drops for contact lenses will provide lubrication and keep your eyes and your contacts wet, supplementing for a lack of tears. You may also wish to find contact lense care products for “sensitive eyes”, because some chemicals in other products may begin to cause an allergic reaction, even if you've been using the products for awhile. If you begin to experience the symptoms of contact lenses and dry eyes, like redness, discharge, tearing, itching, the feeling of a particle in your eye, or burning, it may be time for a change. You can look for preservative-free contact lens care products, or those with “disappearing” preservatives that will be gone by the time the solution comes in contact with your eyes or your contact lenses.

There are solutions to help your need for contacts for dry eyes. Can you wear contact lenses with dry eyes? The answer is yes, with the proper solution(s) in place to address your contacts for dry eyes. Consult your eye doctor. Follow their instructions. And read and follow the directions on any contact lense care products you use.