Effects of Dry Eye
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
Dry eye is one of the most common causes of chronic low grade burning ,irritation and discomfort of eyes, becoming commoner among the people all over the world. Added to the systemic factors, drugs and environment alter the characteristics of the tear film, which is indispensible a healthy ocular surface. So a better understanding of the disease and better mode of treatment would aid the physician to help those patients to overcome this chronic plaguing problem and maintain a good visual acuity patients and comfort for the rest of their life and thereby ensure a better living condition for these patients with this incurable disease. To evaluate the dry eye status in patients selected for the study.to evaluate the associated risk factors contributing to dry eye. To evaluate the efficacy of different modalities of treatment in mild moderate and severe dry eye. Ninety patients patients with dry eyes were studied.Of the 90 patients 70 patients had primary ocular disease.Inferior tear meniscus was reduced in 80% of the patients in the study. 32.2% of these patients belonged to category of computer vision syndrome. Hence in this study it is observed that early diagnosis of dry eye and its systemic associations is important to prevent corneal complications.
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DR. Y. INDIRA, DR. CHANDRASEKHAR ATHIKARI
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