Dry Eye Specialist in Brookhaven

Brookleigh Family Eyecare is a dry eye specialist in Brookhaven that offers the best selection of services to help treat your condition.

It all starts with a dry eye exam. An exam is the first step to finding an effective treatment for your dry eye condition.

Once we’ve confirmed that you have dry eye, we’ll find the best treatment for you. We have many different options for our dry eye treatments, such as eye drops or pulsation therapy. For the most long-lasting results however, we usually recommend our IPL therapy. Using intense pulsed light, we can melt away built-up substances that restrict the flow from your meibomian glands. Even if you have another gland issue, we can help stop dry eyes with any of our blocked gland treatments.

There are many ways that dry eye can manifest itself. If you experience any of the following symptoms, you may need to seek treatment with our dry eye specialist in Brookhaven:

• Blurred vision
• Light sensitivity
• The feeling of something in your eye
• Watery eyes
• Stinging or burning in your eye
• Mucus build-up around the eyes

If you experience any of these symptoms repeatedly, you may have a dry eye condition. Reach out to the Brookleigh team and schedule a dry eye exam to find treatment.

What we commonly call “dry eye” actually can refer to several different conditions that have varying causes.

With aqueous deficient dry eye, it is actually your lacrimal gland that is the cause. This gland is responsible for regular tear production, but when it fails to produce tears effectively, your eyes will dry out over time.

Another condition, evaporative dry eye, is caused when your tears evaporate too fast. This is one of the meibomian gland dysfunctions that happens when the meibomian gland oil fails to prevent your tears from drying up.

Mixed dry eye is the other major condition that we can treat. With mixed dry eyes, both your glands fail to function properly, leading to poor tear production and a lack of film on your eyes.
With our dry eye services, we’ll identify which condition is most likely for your symptoms and apply targeted treatment to relieve your symptoms and treat your eyes.

Dry eye can happen to anybody, but certain factors can increase your chances of developing a condition:

• Age: older people tend to be more at risk for dry eye conditions
• Medications: read your prescriptions’ information to see if dry eye is a possible side effect
• Climate: Allergies, the weather, wind, and more can all impact your eye health
• Lifestyle: Smoking, sitting in front of a screen for long periods, your diet, and more can all increase your risk of developing dry eye
• Medical conditions: Some conditions of the eye, brain, autoimmune system, and more can cause dry eye
• Surgeries: Many eye surgeries, including cataract surgery, LASIK, and more can lead to dry eye

For minor or infrequent cases, you may be able to manage your symptoms at home. We recommend using artificial tears, cyclosporine or lifitegrast eye drops, or varenicline nasal spray to help manage your symptoms.

Note that these only provide temporary relief to your immediate symptoms. For lasting results, or if you find that you still experience discomfort, you should visit Brookleigh to work directly with our dry eye specialist in Brookhaven.