I figured out one thing that contributes to my dry eye

[gilligan_1434]

Building Air- something in certain buildings.

During the past Mon-Fri I spent on average about 7 hours a day in a certain building on campus for classes and studying. My eyes slowly got worse during the week until Friday night they were as dry and sore as they have ever been. They had been doing so good for almost a year too! I was forced to do 3 compresses and put in about 20 drops yesterday evening where normally I would do maybe 3 drops in a day and hadn't done any compresses in a year. I thought my dry eyes were getting much much worse in a hurry yesterday! I was dreading waking up in the morning and was just hoping to avoid a corneal tear.

But I was pleasantly surprised this morning! Waking up in my bed my eyes were ok and I was suspiciously optimistic that maybe they weren't going to be so bad today after all. It turns out they are nearly back to how they were prior to this past week, and it literally went from horrible to great overnight! I am not exaggerating at all because I haven't put any drops in all day and feel pretty good, I've just given them a rest every few hours as a precaution.

I have no choice but to believe I am severely allergic to something in that building on campus. Now I just need to figure out how to avoid being in that building as much as possible. I'm just thinking; what if I was allergic to where I lived? I would never figure that out unless I moved and got better. I hope this can help someone else on here.

The weird thing is that I've been in that building nearly as much all year, it's as if something has changed or started growing in there recently. In any case I'm convinced it has everything to do with that building and not something outside because it rained pretty often the past week to clear the outside allergens.

[regina]

bldg air...

Yes...I also think there is something in the air in my building where I work...but I think in my case its because its a new bldg and humidity hovers around 36 percent...too low for me. No matter what I do..cold hot...drops...goggles..it just doesnt matter...by the time I leave my eyes are beat red!

[Lucy]

Can you bring a small humidifier for your desk? Many office workers do that, but now I'm guessing you're a student and probably move around the building during the day and carrying a humidifier just wouldn't work!

[gilligan_1434]

yeah I'm a student so I can't carry a humidifier with, but I've considered trying to make eyeglasses that have a built-in humidifier!

[Minni]

Just speculating:

New lighting system? Fluresence?
Air conditioning?

Also note, intolerances sometimes build up gradually.

So you can be an utmost healthy specimen.
You move into a sick building.
And aren't bothered (after all, your healthiness buffers you.
But gradually, due to the environment, you're eventually zapped.
And you develop allergies/intolerances (whatchamacallit..

I've read about this. They compare it to a cup which gradually, gradually fills up with poison liquid, until it reaches the overflowing point.

[Debk]

Same thing

I experienced the same issue in a building....church of all places!

All week I was doing great. We attended service and I helped with the coffee cleanup and when I looked in the mirror, I looked like a zombie that had been up all night. What a great impression for fellow church attendees!

Strange thing is, my issues started last summer, last week in June after I taught vacation bible school for a week. I don't know if it was the humidity, or the air flow or the stress (my group had four four year olds, two five year olds, a six year old, and a seven year old), but I woke up one morning to a blood shot eye, which progressively got worse.

I do believe the environment has a big role in the wellness of our eyes.

[regina]

humidifier

I brought in a 1300 square foot humidifier...set it at my feet. The gauge said 36 humidity, but the room is a huge 15,000 square foot foom. I even placed an unbrella to catch the humidity and to shove it to my face. With all that, the humidity guage around my desk went up to 38! Still not enough! I drive my supervisers nuts with the things i try that arent exactly professional looking...haha My googles, saran wrap or tape on the corner of my eyes, one time I taped a orange peel to the side of my eyes..they enjoy the pics they take with their phones though!

[gilligan_1434]

Two things I've noticed about the building that makes my eyes dry:
1) forced air heating
2) extreme lack of sunlight coming through windows, actually the lecture halls have no windows


I'm guessing it's got some sort of mold spores or something that would NORMALLY get killed by sunlight. My apartement in contrast has baseboard heating and lots of windows.

[Guest]

I brought in a 1300 square foot humidifier...set it at my feet. The gauge said 36 humidity, but the room is a huge 15,000 square foot foom. I even placed an unbrella to catch the humidity and to shove it to my face. With all that, the humidity guage around my desk went up to 38! Still not enough! I drive my supervisers nuts with the things i try that arent exactly professional looking...haha My googles, saran wrap or tape on the corner of my eyes, one time I taped a orange peel to the side of my eyes..they enjoy the pics they take with their phones though!

Awesome mental pictures all that brings! lol

Hmmm... maybe I should try that haha... as Sophia on The Golden Girls used to say... "picture this..."

Not one, but TWO umbrellas and TWO humidifiers... 1 at the cash register, and another one where I do most of my work... hmmm... and maybe a draft-proof humidified tunnel of some sort in between them... add on goggles, and orange peel, and I'd be all set! lol

oh... AND, I like the saran wrap thing... maybe wrap that over the goggles to totally make them draft-proof!

/sigh... too bad all the things we do just to make our eyes bearable make us look so odd to others

[ringo]

"postmodern" era buildings atmosphere

Oh God-- where do I start-- office buildings? Hospitals? Shopping Malls? Bars? Restaurants? Hotels? Airports anyone? Metro?

Basically everything public... outdoors is a challenge-- hmmm where I live it is currently 42 Celsius... Indoors anywhere its like the Arctic...

The only thing that helps me WITHOUT having to look SUPER ODD-- like with goggles, wraps, etc., is a semi-liquid ointment with 0.2 % cyclosporine in it.

That is the only thing that makes my eye cope with all the challenges of near zero humidity, drafts, and more drafts, and horrible lighting everywhere-- what was that -- electricity saving lamps.
Don't even get me started on buildings atosphere-- I think that anyone with bordeline tear secretion is bound to develop dry eye in these buildings.

Add computer use to that-- and bingo! you have a resipe for fast track dry eye progression/ deterioration.

I stil have extreme embarrassment wearing goggles indoors in public-- everyone looks at me as if i am an alien; and sooner than later starts asking whats wrong with me. So, I have no choice-- only the ointment saves me. It does not blur my vision for more than a couple of minutes, but after that, oh what a relief-- the resistance to the drafts and lights is quite long-term (an hour at a time of application).

I HATE CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS VENTILATION AND LIGHTING. For all I know, I envy the old times of our parents-- they were hardly using any ventilators even in the summer.

And i think it is only going to get worse-- this is going to be truly omnipresent and there will be no escape from it.

Dani

[ema]

agreed...office buildings, malls, wal-mart, etc. kill my eyes. not to mention i have a job that requires on average 7 hrs. of computer work per day! it seems when my eyes start to feel better then i have to expose them to environments that work against them...just a vicious cycle.

i now crack my office window to let more humidity in, sometimes it helps (i think).

[msny]

For me it goes beyond buildings, its the environment in general.

Recently, I was in Alaska on a cruise where the humidity was between
30 to 40 percent and the average temp around 65 F.

I cut my drops in 1/2, and even my simple heating pad did the job well.
(no rice baggy, no microwave!)

The sea air had an effect, not lost on any of our land excursions either.

I would like to know if there are any environmental studies on this
for the eye about temp, humidity and allergies?

It makes all the difference to me.

[irish eyes]

For me it goes beyond buildings, its the environment in general.


It makes all the difference to me.

Me too.

[Minni]

For me it goes beyond buildings, its the environment in general.

Recently, I was in Alaska on a cruise where the humidity was between
30 to 40 percent and the average temp around 65 F.

I cut my drops in 1/2, and even my simple heating pad did the job well.
(no rice baggy, no microwave!)

The sea air had an effect, not lost on any of our land excursions either.

I would like to know if there are any environmental studies on this
for the eye about temp, humidity and allergies?

It makes all the difference to me.

Of course!

I read that either in the book Black On White (by Granlund-Lind) or else Invisible Disease (by Nordstrom).
Wherein electrosensitives testified that the sun didn't bother them at seaside, and another woman mentioned getting cured by living awhile on a totally barren rocky island in middle of the sea.

My neighbor had told me that her dad was blind as a baby, and was cured by advice to have someone ferry him back and forth at night on the water.

Dr. Jordan Rubin (Garden of Life, or whatever it's called) had metioned in his book that HSO's and also living at the sea in a tent for a long stretch, cured him.

I myself felt wonderful after a very short stint once inside a natural mud pool at Dead Sea under the sun. But the salt-sea only did NOT help, nor did Tiberias sulfur baths. JUST the sequence of salt-sea FOLLOWED BY natural mud pool, under the sun, since the mud pool had a PULLING (quicksand) effect, pulling out toxins, the way leaches do.

Now, anyone thinking deeply will of course wonder... so why am I still ill?
Answer: LUCK/TIMING
My luck & timing constantly worked against me thereafter such that I never got back there while the going was good. Instead, many young kids who don't even need the therapy I do, have been privileged to go there (while taking it totally for granted). What a waste this world truly is.

[msny]

Of course!

I read that either in the book Black On White (by Granlund-Lind) or else Invisible Disease (by Nordstrom).
Wherein electrosensitives testified that the sun didn't bother them at seaside, and another woman mentioned getting cured by living awhile on a totally barren rocky island in middle of the sea.

My neighbor had told me that her dad was blind as a baby, and was cured by advice to have someone ferry him back and forth at night on the water.

Dr. Jordan Rubin (Garden of Life, or whatever it's called) had metioned in his book that HSO's and also living at the sea in a tent for a long stretch, cured him.

I myself felt wonderful after a very short stint once inside a natural mud pool at Dead Sea under the sun. But the salt-sea only did NOT help, nor did Tiberias sulfur baths. JUST the sequence of salt-sea FOLLOWED BY natural mud pool, under the sun, since the mud pool had a PULLING (quicksand) effect, pulling out toxins, the way leaches do.

Now, anyone thinking deeply will of course wonder... so why am I still ill?
Answer: LUCK/TIMING
My luck & timing constantly worked against me thereafter such that I never got back there while the going was good. Instead, many young kids who don't even need the therapy I do, have been privileged to go there (while taking it totally for granted). What a waste this world truly is.

Exactly!

The summer months here in ohio are the worse.

Air conditioning lacks humidity, and the bright heat from the sun
drys out everything. Add to that any wind, and I'm literally in
that really hot place with a pitchfork in my eyes..

My eyes become so blurry, nothing but a rice baggy will clear
them up. At least I can manage it with Restasis, Dwelle &
the Rice Baggy.