04/09/2025
Fun fact:
Prolonged use of screens (computers, tablets, tv’s, ipads, phones…etc) causes a decreased blink rate.
Why is this important?
You may be contributing to your dry eye symptoms!
Your tears are made up of 3 layers- mucous, water, and oil. The oil layer keeps the water layer on the surface of the eye, keeping your eye hydrated. The oil layer of your tears comes from a gland in your eyelid that is secreted with each blink. So decreasing your blinking, decreases the amount of oil being released into the tears. If the oil layer is not present or not as stable as it should be, your tears are not going to sit on the surface of your eyes as long as they should, which causes dryness.
The more you know…