New here and desperate

[kylix]

prof. Baudouin used to have Fridays for private consultations, so it can be solution

[dominorose]

Kylix I asked but his secretary tells me it's impossible

[dominorose]

LM, do you think ocular rosacea/MGD can be caused by anxiety? I had an emotional stress prior to the sudden complications in my dryness... Maybe it's related bc stress is a trigger for rosaceans...

[dominorose]

PLEASE; I need reassurance, I'm exploding.

Is it "normal" for MGD sufferers:

- Sticky lids

- Mucus balls (white) in inner corners

- Having difficulty to get emotional tears come out ? Sorry for this one, my english isn't perfect. When I cry, my emotional tears come easily out of my right eye, but in the left one (the worst for me), they don't flow out easily.

I'm really anxious, all of these symptoms point to aqueous deficiency, am I wrong?

[dominorose]

No one?

[physther2]

And the other one:

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looks like dead skin around the bad of the eyelashes which is a possible sign of demodex. The males have claws and cause the skin build up at base of eyelashes.

[dominorose]

Thanks Physter. I'm using cliradex wipes for nearly 3 weeks now on my lids, lashes and face : it seems to help for my face, and the eyelashes are slowly going back to their initial black/clean color. But the dryness is still here... The only change I've noticed is a new symptom : instead of having the bone dry sensation, now my eyes feel very greasy and my lids stick together if I squint too hard. I don't want to be too optimistic, but maybe my glands are slowly opening and releasing the meibum and thats why my eyes feel gooey? Or it's just another "dry eye trick" (they try to impress me with new crazy sensations every week!! ) i don't know.

[dominorose]

My eyes are so oily these days, they stick together when I blink and burn, I'm really worried !

[dominorose]

Just got my blood tests back for hormone levels, and my progesterone and oestrogen levels are way too low... Same for testosterone, I'm in the normal range but the lowest part.

Could it be the cause of my dry eyes?

[demodexhelp]

Hi Rose,

I have blepharitis and what I understand from researching online is that blepharitis and roseacea are 100% caused by demodex mites (which can be seen if you pull out a lash and look under a microscope, but most opthamalogists have no clue and don't do this). The demodex mites eat the sebum in your hair folicals but they can also start to eat away at the tear ducts and this is what causes dry eye. There are probably other causes of dry eye but since your doc says you also have rosacea ti sounds to me like it is demodex related. I am using Tea Tree Oil as suggested by docs that are researching and publishing on this topic, but what I understand is most difficult is to get rid of the eggs (and they can lay 50 in each follicle every night!), so using an ointment to stop mating process is key. I have heard of and experienced some success with honey, when I stop using the honey and just use the TTO the crustiness on my eyes is back (like cement in the morning), so I think I need to stick with the honey for longer period of time. Rosacea only happens in people who have genetic allergy to the bacteria caused by demodex, I have seen a major improvement in my rosacea from TTO. here are some articles I found helpful...
http://www.revophth.com/content/i/2088/c/36411/
http://stopdemodex.com/what-causes-demodex.html
http://healthybodydaily.com/dr-oz-in...our-eyelashes/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1772908/

[DryInUpstateNY]

Tell me more about demodex and it affecting the gland...and the allergic component to this...

I don't have MGD, but I'm allergic to dust in a bad way. dust is a mite. demodex is a mite. I wonder if there MITE be a correlation?

[dominorose]

Demodexhelp, I have used Cliradex with no real improvement, I'm not sure my problem is Demodex...

[LyndaT]

Hi,

I used the WET ONES, antibacterial hand wipes, on someone in a rest home whose eyes were almost glued shut with yellow gunk.
The gunk just melted off. I use them only 2 times a week. Her eyes have very little on her lashes now. I wipes her eyes with water afterwards.
From the information I found it seems as though she would have Demodex as it said all over the age of 90 do. She is on the down side of the 90’s. Her eyes have been extremely red on the bottom rims for years. She could have started out with Blepharitis.
I know these wipes work on bacteria as I used them to kill my Blepharitis. It appears to work on the bacteria from Demodex.
The hand wipes have Benzethonium Chloride or in the UK Benzalkonium Chloride in them which are called Quats (which are ammonium salts or compounds). I do not know if these Quats are just working on the bacteria or if they are killing some of the mites too.
If you are not allergic to shampoos, detergents, fabric softeners, hand wipes or even spermicidal jellies or lanolin (in wipes too) this may work for you.
Here is some information I found.

Primary Care Optometry News

Of the 65 described Demodex species, only Demodex brevis and Demodex folliculorum are found on humans.
Demodex blepharitis is observed equally in males and females and is age related. A study by Junemann showed that Demodex is found in 25% of 20-year-olds, 30% of 50-year-olds and 100% in patients older than 90 years.

WEB MD
How Mites Might Cause Rosacea
“We found these bacteria inside these little Demodex mites,” Kavanagh says.
Demodex mites live on the skin of 20% to 80% of adults. The tiny bugs are invisible to the naked eye. Until recently, it was thought that the mites lived harmlessly, feeding off the oily sebum that coats the skin.
Kavanagh says changes in the skin brought on by age, stress, or illness sometimes allows the population of Demodex mites to swell. Research shows that people with rosacea have more than 10 times as many Demodex mites on their skin as people without the condition.
“When each of those [mites] dies, they release bacteria into the skin,” he says.

Those bacteria trigger an immune reaction that causes redness and inflammation of the skin. The mites themselves don’t seem to be harmful, Kavanagh says. It’s the bacteria they have inside their bodies.
“You can think of them like a bus,” he says. “They bus in large numbers of bacteria. But it’s not the bus that’s the problem; it’s the bacteria that get off the bus that’s the problem.”
Hope this information helps you.
LyndaT

[dominorose]

Yes Lynda, yes we know. And Faith burnt her eyes with this ****.

[Faith1989]

Yes we are glad wet ones worked for you. I STRONGLY urge caution to users though. I had to use prednisone for a month many times a day to recover from using these. My lids were cherry red and the feeling was indescribable.