Dry eye - constant tears from right eye.

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I've had a constant teary eye for 5 days now. No pain, no inflamation and no redness. The doc has said it's dry eye (even though it's constanty running) and prescribed some drops.

It's driving me to distraction now I've been doing a bit of research and HRT/menopause could be to be blame.

Anyone have any tips?

One of the problems with a dry eye is that the tear ducts react by producing lots of tears hence the running eye. Try some viscosears.

Thanks for the reply.

I've had a runny nose all week and woken up with really bad sinus pain this morning so I'm wondering if it's linked.

Ah, possibly. Try good old lemsip. I've been on it all week for a sinusy cold. ( well a couple a day for 3 days)

I had this ,googled and got my self some drops for dry eye , didn't work . Then I tried antiseptic eye ointment over the counter stuff , like chloramphenicol but not the same drug, think it was called golden eye or something. Cured it within two doses.

this stuff

Thanks ggirl I'll pop in chemist this afternoon and give that a whirl.

If you get artificial tears, make you sure you get preservative free ones. This advice was given to me by a top ophthalmologist.

The treatment I had to do was fill a beaker up with cooled boiled water and add a drop of Johnson baby shampoo. Use a cotton bud and wipe the liquid across the lower eyelid. Wet the other end and do the top eyelid rim.

It actually worked a treat.

Apparently dry eyes lack the protective,viscous film of moisture that healthy eyes have .

The dry surface causes the moisture your tear ducts make, to run straight off them as opposed to merging with the film that should be round your eyeball .
A bit like rain/water running off baked soil as opposed to sinking into the ground .

So wateringeyes are a sign that the eye is dry and needs drops .

Or that's my understanding .

Thanks for all your advice.

I've got my "thicker" drops from the chemist (the same as the prescrition the doc gave me but only £1.79) and will apply them last thing at night and first thing in a morning.
I'm regularly massaging my eye area - side of my nose, iyswim.
Going to sit with a hot flannel on later.
I'll buy some Omega3 capsules when I go shopping.

If all that doesn't help then god knows what will