How to survive nights with dry eye

Maybe your eyes are always red and gritty in the morning. Maybe you wake during the night with pain and have to re-apply drops or goop. Maybe you get recurrent erosions.

Why are nights so bad for us?
Here are some reasons:

• Aqueous tear production decreases during sleep.
• Heating, a/c and ceiling fans cause dry eye to swirl around over our eyes, increasing evaporative loss.
• Inadequate lipids in our tear film (from blepharitis/MGD) can impair its ability to keep itself

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