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Hi all, I'm still battling with MGD, made quite a lot of progress but I'm still in discomfort. I wanted to start sharing some of the things that have helped me, I hope to write a whole post about my experience with dry eye and what has helped and what has not helped but I still feeling like a dealing with things. I thought that I could just post the odd thing that has helped me, the most recent thing I have tried is sleeping with the light on.
I've been battling with bad dry eye for 2-3 years, reached its worse point on 1.5 year mark. I found out in January that there were signs of demodex in my lashes (dandruff). Since I started to treat my eyes in ways that can kill demodex I have noticed a difference and my eyes have got a bit better.
Demodex blepharitis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgav_kZ_Hi4
As mentioned above the latest thing I am trying is sleeping with the light on. For a long time I was trying to figure out my why my right eye was always worse than my left eye and then I realised its because I mainly sleep on my right hand side with my eye in the pillow which was giving the demodex the darkness they need to come out and breed etc.
For the last 4 weeks I have been sleeping with the light on and my eyes have been a lot better upon waking in the morning, I used to wake with very heaby eyelids and a gritty feeling, this sensation is decreasing each morning. I try to sleep on my back and not bury my head in pillow so as not to give the demodex the darkness they need to breed.
It's such an easy thing to try too and it has really really helped me. I also change my pillow cases every night and use tea tree shampoo and body wash etc.
I hope this can help someone else, it's helped me.
Cath x
I've been battling with bad dry eye for 2-3 years, reached its worse point on 1.5 year mark. I found out in January that there were signs of demodex in my lashes (dandruff). Since I started to treat my eyes in ways that can kill demodex I have noticed a difference and my eyes have got a bit better.
Demodex blepharitis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgav_kZ_Hi4
As mentioned above the latest thing I am trying is sleeping with the light on. For a long time I was trying to figure out my why my right eye was always worse than my left eye and then I realised its because I mainly sleep on my right hand side with my eye in the pillow which was giving the demodex the darkness they need to come out and breed etc.
For the last 4 weeks I have been sleeping with the light on and my eyes have been a lot better upon waking in the morning, I used to wake with very heaby eyelids and a gritty feeling, this sensation is decreasing each morning. I try to sleep on my back and not bury my head in pillow so as not to give the demodex the darkness they need to breed.
It's such an easy thing to try too and it has really really helped me. I also change my pillow cases every night and use tea tree shampoo and body wash etc.
I hope this can help someone else, it's helped me.
Cath x
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