Filamentary Keratopathy and n-acetylcysteine drops

[Coop14]

Hi all, long time Sjögren’s Syndrome with severe dry and inflammed eyes. Lacriserts worked well for me for several decades but now impossible to get so switched to autologous serum drops. Two months in with the serum drops and it seems they are not working for me as now diagnosed with Filamentary...

[ok45sg]

"Subsequently, friction cause by blinking and/or movement of the eye develops between the palpebral conjunctiva and the injured epithelium and produces the filament core. Further frictional stress is exerted by the eyelid, and the core then entwines with mucin, conjunctival epithelium, fiber of...