In Office Dry Eye Treatments for Mild to Severe Dry Eye Disease
About 20% of the time at home treatmets are not enough to treat your dry eye disease, but the great news is that there are theurapeutic in office treatmetns that can. Waverley Eye Care is excited to partner with INMODE to provide advanced dry eye treatments approved by Health Canada with the specific indication of treating Meibomian Gland Disfunction.
Radio-Frequency (RF) and Intense Pulse Light (IPL) have been used safely for years in dermatogly for non-surgical skin tightening and photofacials. It has been shown that these same treatments can be used by eye care specialists to treat dry eye disease.
INMODE Forma-i: Radio-Frequency Treatment
- Provides soothing theurapuetic heat to eye lids and meibomian glands
- Treats obstructed meibomian glands
- Skin tightening to remove small lines and wrinkles
INMODE Lumecca: IPL (Intense Pulse Light) Treatment
- Destroys abnormal blood vessels causing inflammaiton
- Reduces redness along lids cuased by abnormal small blood vessels
- Removes pigmented sun spots
Book af free Dry Eye Consultation to talk about how these advanced in office treatments can help you.
Do You have Dry Eye Disease?
Dry Eye disease is an extreamely common condition in Winnipeg.
The problem is usually not the QUANTITY of tears but the QUALITY of your tears.
Poor quality tears evapoarate too quickly causing:
- Blueered Vision
- Burning/Stinging Eyes
- Red Eyes & Lids
- Watery/Weepy eyes
- Damage to surface of the cornea
- Increased eye & lid infections
Want to know if you have Dry Eye? Take this Quiz now
What Causes Dry Eye Disease?
The root of Dry Eye Disease are 4 things, commonly remembered by using the acronym L.I.O.N.
Lids: Blepharitis and Demodex are chronic infestations of the lids and lashes by organisms that create waste products that lead to inflmmation of the meibomian glands and disruption of the tear film.
Inflammation: Meibomian glands are the long narrow glands in our lids that produce the oily part of the tear that prevents tears from evaporating. Inflammation of the meibomian gland will cause this gland to produce less oils and result in dry eye.
Obstrucation: Obstructed Meibomian glands prevent oils from flowing freely from the gland.
Nutrition: Diets rich in saturated fats adn processed foods can cause cellular inflammation in our meibomian glands causing dry eye disease.
Treat theses 4 and you can be free of your dry eye symptoms.
How to Cure My Dry Eye Disease.
At Waverley Eye Care Centre we have a full range of options to treat your dry eye disease, whether it be mild or severe.
Treatment options include:
At Home Treatments: for mild dry eye disease
In Office Treatments: for mild to severe dry eye disease.
Treatmetn is important because we can’t restored damaged or lost meibomian glands, but we can treat the ones you have left to help prevent your dry eye disease from beoming worse.
At Home Treatments for Mild Dry Eye Disease
About 80% of the time your dry eye disease can be treated and managed by a little bit of work from you and home. These optons can include:
- Lubricating Eye Drops:
- Hot compresses
- Omega 3 Supplements
- Prescription Eye Drops
- Lid Hygiene
