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I have read several people in here speaking of this and never knew what ya'll were talking about so I looked it up:
The meibomian glands (or tarsal glands) are a special kind of sebaceous glands at the rim of the eyelids, responsible for the supply of sebum, an oily substance that prevents evaporation of the eye's tear film, prevents tear spillage onto the cheek, and makes the closed lids airtight. There are approximately 50 glands on the upper eyelids and 25 glands on the lower eyelids.
Since these prevent your tears from evaporating...I thought I'd look at mine and see what they look like and if they were oily looking or moist.
I looked at mine with a 10X mirror and the area where these are ~ and they are dry as a bone. So I'm wondering if this is my problem. I go back to the eye doc next week; so I'm going to mention this and see what happens...
But if this is it and I have gone all these years (since 2004) would they even be repairable at this point? and what do you do to repair these to make them work?
The meibomian glands (or tarsal glands) are a special kind of sebaceous glands at the rim of the eyelids, responsible for the supply of sebum, an oily substance that prevents evaporation of the eye's tear film, prevents tear spillage onto the cheek, and makes the closed lids airtight. There are approximately 50 glands on the upper eyelids and 25 glands on the lower eyelids.
Since these prevent your tears from evaporating...I thought I'd look at mine and see what they look like and if they were oily looking or moist.
I looked at mine with a 10X mirror and the area where these are ~ and they are dry as a bone. So I'm wondering if this is my problem. I go back to the eye doc next week; so I'm going to mention this and see what happens...
But if this is it and I have gone all these years (since 2004) would they even be repairable at this point? and what do you do to repair these to make them work?
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