The dry eye remedy
Subtitle: the complete guide to restoring the health and beauty of your eyes
By: Robert Latkany
Edition: Revised edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781578266258
Subjects: Dry eye syndromes
Description: "New 2016 edition of the best-selling, practical guide to help dry eye sufferers improve their vision, reduce wrinkles and redness, and restore overall eye health, Includes up-to-date information on medications, procedures, testing, after-care, and more. It can happen any time. Your eyes feel tired. You rub them. You look at yourself in the mirror and see lines, wrinkles, bags, redness that was never there before. Approximately 100 million people worldwide suffer from dry eye (also known as dysfunctional tear syndrome). Traditional solutions, such as eye drops and eyelid surgery, may actually make the problem worse. Dry eye affects not only your eye's appearance and your vision; it is often linked to skin conditions and other eye diseases such as glaucoma. The Dry Eye Remedy, Revised Edition brings the same wealth of knowledge from the first book on practical ways to restore eye health with new updates from the field put together expertly by Dr. Robert Latkany, the founder and director of the Dry Eye Clinic at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary."--provided by Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: How healthy eyes work; title: What causes dry eye disorders?; title: What to expect in the doctor's office; title: What over-the-counter treatments can; title: and can't; title: help; title: Your daily activities; title: Your environment; title: Your lifestyle and nutrition; title: Your home eye spa; title: Medicines that help, medicines that harm; title: Hormone therapy for dry eyes; title: Punctal plugs and other means of keeping the tears in without drugs; title: Surgical intervention; title: Four therapeutic approaches to dry eyes; title: Future trends and research.