For Issues Associated with Dry Eyes or Treatment of Dry Eye Disease in Northern VA, Contact the Eye Doctors at Dominion Eye Care
The ophthalmologists at Dominion Eye Care in Manassas and Warrenton, VA treat patients throughout Northern VA with a condition known as Dry Eye. Eyes need oxygen and nourishment from tears. When the eye is no longer producing an adequate number of tears or low-quality tears, the symptoms of dry eyes can appear.
Dry eyes can develop due to a natural process of aging, gender, medications, medical conditions, and other factors like long-term use of contact lenses. LASIK surgery can also decrease tear production, which can also contribute to dry eyes.
Through a comprehensive eye exam, the eye doctors at Dominion Eye Care can determine if you have Dry Eye Syndrome. Testing and evaluating the quality of the tears produced is a defining factor in determining Dry Eye. Dyes may be used to examine tear flow and tear abnormalities.
Symptoms of Dry Eye
Dry Eye symptoms might include irritated, gritty and/or scratchy eyes. Your eyes might burn, or you might feel that something is in your eye. You may have excess watering due to reflex tearing and blurred vision, and if the condition is advanced, the eyes might be damaged and vision impaired.
Identifying Dry Eye
The ophthalmologists at Dominion Eye Care will examine your medical history, discuss general health problems, medications and environmental factors that may be causing your Dry Eye issues. They will look at your blink dynamics and the structure of the eyelid. They may do an evaluation of the cornea with bright lights and magnification. Through this process, treatment options can be determined.
Treatments for Dry Eye in VA
Patients can reduce the symptoms of Dry Eye themselves by blinking regularly, increasing the humidity in the home, wearing sunglasses outside, and adding nutritional supplements as part of a health program. Dominion Eye Care ophthalmologists may also recommend conserving tears naturally, by blocking the tear ducts, prescribing medications to increase tear production, treating eyelid/ocular surface inflammation (that may be causing the Dry Eye), or recommending you use artificial tears (which are purchasable over the counter). We also employ advanced treatments such as AMG (Amniotic Membrane Graft) or Prokera, as well as autologous serum drops.
Contact the ophthalmologists at Dominion Eye Care in VA for information and treatment solutions for Dry Eye.
Call: (703) 361-3128 in Manassas or (540) 349-0906 in Warrenton
Email: info@dominioneyecare.com
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