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I have wondered about this before and came accross an article on www.opthalmologymanagement.com regarding this.
The article itself focuses on treatment for Ocular rosacea but also looks at dry eye too.
It looks at treatment with cyclosporin compared with a control group just using artificial tears. The group just using the artificial tears actually showed a reduction in the amount of tears they produced (shirmer scores) and a reduced TBUT.
Is it possible that by supplementing your tears (especially regularly) your eyes may become 'lazy' and produce less of their own because you are doing it artificially. What made me wonder was because (and I know its a different situation) many years ago when I had to take a course of steroids (systemic) due to an acute asthma flare, my doc explained that they dont like to do this too much because you can end up needing them long term - due to your body becoming 'lazy' and not producing any steroids naturally. Well this is how he explained it to me and Ive always remembered that. I just wondered whether it could be a similar thing with tear production.
Has anyone come accross any info/evidence to suggest this?
Sorry I dont have the link for the article right now but I will look it up again and post it.
Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this.
The article itself focuses on treatment for Ocular rosacea but also looks at dry eye too.
It looks at treatment with cyclosporin compared with a control group just using artificial tears. The group just using the artificial tears actually showed a reduction in the amount of tears they produced (shirmer scores) and a reduced TBUT.
Is it possible that by supplementing your tears (especially regularly) your eyes may become 'lazy' and produce less of their own because you are doing it artificially. What made me wonder was because (and I know its a different situation) many years ago when I had to take a course of steroids (systemic) due to an acute asthma flare, my doc explained that they dont like to do this too much because you can end up needing them long term - due to your body becoming 'lazy' and not producing any steroids naturally. Well this is how he explained it to me and Ive always remembered that. I just wondered whether it could be a similar thing with tear production.
Has anyone come accross any info/evidence to suggest this?
Sorry I dont have the link for the article right now but I will look it up again and post it.
Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this.
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