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Red, irritated, thickened, flaky lids- or inflammation of the lids to be more exact. Oil, sweat, dirt, debris, eye infection, dry eyes, and plugged tear glands can all lead to having inflamed irritated lids. There are generally 3 types: bacterial based (most common caused by staph bacteria), seborrheic (caused by oily, greasy, dandruff like particles), and meibomitis (inflammation of the glands which produce the oil and mucus part in a healthy tear film).
So what do we do?
For starters, we begin with “lidscrubs,” a good foam based cleaner to help wash away the physical oil, dust, and build up on the eye lid margin. After that, our office recommends a heat application therapy and a good homeopathic artificial tear to wash out any remaining particles. We also incorporate vitamin therapy in our office. Working from the inside out, it has shown to be very effective! If required we also incorporate a strong anti-biotic for the more severe cases.
Here our patient shows “sleaving” of the eyelashes.” Oil and greasy buildup cause eye irritation, swollen lids and infection.
Our patient here shows a much more severe case! Buildup galore! We incorporated anti-biotic and vitamin therapy as well as lid hygiene. Stop back for a new photo showing the lids after treatment.
Plugged glands! Here you can see glands which are “capped” and are having a hard time trying to push out the normal oil/mucus. Heat, lidscrubs, and vitamin therapy do wonders!
We carry many wonderful products, in house, to help with your dry eyes from lid hygiene, masks, specific dry eye drops, punctal plugs to excellent vitamins therapies. CLICK HERE TO see our page on the products and our Dry Eye Excellence.