So here are a few observations.
On usual workdays: some redness right after waking up then redness goes away and eyes surface is pretty nice white until it starts coming back late afternoon reaching peak redness in the evening.
On weekend days: some morning redness that goes away rather quickly. Then for the rest of the day my eyes are white! Might get a bit of redness towards the evening but barely noticeable. However this is only the case if I don't go out. If I go out (means taking metro, alcohol drinks, a cigarette, pubs and clubs, staying till late) then redness is unavoidable. Sometimes I will be luckier (see next section) but in most (not all) cases I will have full blown red eyes by the late evening. And that doesn't help much in social situations but I learned to live with it. Quite often people will say something like "bro your eyes look red..." and well you can joke a bit like "yep, the devil's eyes" or "sorry can't see that from inside" but deep in your heart you feel bad no matter how much you joke about it.
So here is what helps:
- good bed regime, 8 hours of quality sleep, going to bed and getting up same time, quality bed linen (high thread count + will help with dust mites allergy which causing morning redness) washed with fragrance-free softner-free nonsense-free detergents
- big glass of warm water with lemon first thing in the morning (to the mouth not into your eyes)
- use warm or slightly cold shower but not hot
- a pill of omega 6 oil from borage (mega GLA complex) with your breakfast I buy from Planet Organic (London)
- a pill or two of quality omega 3 oils I buy from Planet Organic (London)
- if you are in dry environment use eyedrops, my choice Eye Drops by A. Vogel
- do short 2-minutes massages of your closed eyes, very gentle, wash your hands well before touching eyes
- give your face a 1-minute wash with cool water, then put some quality facial oil so that skin doesn't feel dry
- if you know you need to have prettier eyes towards evening and you need to sit in the environment with heaters or ACs blowing around use glasses from 7eye . com they block all airflows, and they don't look bad, they look a bit different to other glasses though but don't worry about co-workers - it is just a condition you need to deal with, you can suggest them try sitting with hair dryer blowing into their face with eyes open - same effect except it takes much much less for your eyes to get irritated by fan heaters, use same glasses+mask if you bicycle, even in your car
- if you feel that your eyes got irritated and triggered inflammation processes then a pill of ibuprofen / ibumetin 400mg will help
Perhaps if anyone else having this type of red eyes (only exposed eye surface is red) could share their observations as to whether staying in home helps them to avoid red eyes, would be great to compare / discuss. My gut feeling is that diesel car fumes and air pollution in general are the number one cause of our red eyes. All other fumes like fragrances (crowded places with many people), tobacco, chlorides, sulfates etc are probably acting as catalysator to the inflammation process but the initial trigger is most likely car fumes especially diesel. At least in my case I can spend whole day in house use fragrances, cleaning liquids (chlorides), whole day staring at the computer monitor without blinking often but eyes won't get red. It is only when I move out in to the streets. Maybe an important to note my house is on the dead-end road so there is no traffic going through - maybe this is the reason I don't get much pollution while at home.
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