this may be the best at-home treatment for dry eyes blepharitis dirty eyelids
poor functioning oil meibomian glands the question is is it worth the cost let's focus in
hey howdy everybody this is Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, with the channel that keeps your eyes
healthy and your vision clear now i've been using the new lids at home dry eye relief treatment
for over a month now so i wanted to go over my thoughts how well it works for me
what it treats how does it work the cost and ultimately if i recommend it this is called new
lids from new site medical and it's an at-home device meaning you can buy it online right now
you don't need a prescription to buy it and it's designed to clean your eyelids and your eyelashes
but not just that it's designed to clean the debris from your eyelids and eyelashes helps
clean bacteria helps clean mites or demodex these little mites that can live off your eyelashes
it also helps clean scurf and biofilm which is a collection of old old dead skin cells
and bacteria that kind of create this layer or cake layer on the eyelid margins where your
meibomian oil gland pores are and so by doing this by being able to clean your eyelids really well
it can help decrease dry eye symptoms it can help decrease inflammation it also can improve
the meibomian gland function which can help dry symptoms today and help your oil glands and your
dryer symptoms in the future now a large portion 86 of people that have dry eye symptoms actually
have a form of dry eye called evaporative dry eyes where their tears evaporate off the surface of
their eye leaving your eyeball exposed to the air which causes that dryness and one of the
big reasons for this is poor functioning oil glands meibomian gland dysfunction
if you don't have oil or sufficient amount of oil coming out of your eyelids then your tears will
evaporate too fast super important to have great functioning oil glands now there are many other
treatments out there to clean your eyelashes and eyelids like wipes and foams cleansers
there are ointments that you can get or hypochlorous acid solution that helps control
overgrowth of bacteria on your eyelids but nothing really to this level of new lids new
lids is what i would consider a premium at-home treatment to clean your eyelids and eyelashes
that can actually do a good job at cleaning off that biofilm that caked on layer on the eyelashes
and eyelids and that scarf other treatments might not quite treat to this level to new lids level
now as you can tell kind of looks like an electric toothbrush and you can actually think of it like
that it's really similar you can think of it as an electric eyelid brush and there are replaceable
silicone head tips that you put on there and when you turn it on it will oscillate back and forth
creating that great oscillation agitation where you can actually clean the base of your eyelashes
and your eyelids and that's why it works so well it has that oscillation and acid agitation on
there now not only is it cleaning your eyelashes and eyelids but that oscillation and helps
agitate the oil glands of your eyelids that can help stimulate the oil glands to produce more oil
so it kind of has an added benefit there and when you put the silicone head tip you'll actually have
a cleansing foam or a gel that you put on there and so when you're actually cleaning the eyelids
you have actually a cleanser that you're using on there so it's cleaning the eyelids really well
this is designed to use once a day morning or night and when you turn it on you can
actually do 30 seconds per eye and then it'll switch over and you'll do 30 seconds per eye
so really that's all it takes is 30 seconds each eye each day now you can use it more than once a
day i'd be a little bit careful here though because it can be a little agitating to the
eyelids the skin of the eyelids and so if you use it twice a day it might feel a little rough and
agitating a little bit i tried it twice a day for a little bit and it was a little bit too
agitating for me so i just stuck with once a day and i did great with it it's designed so
the silicone head tips are replaceable you use a new one every day so after you use it once a day
you'll toss this one and you'll put a fresh new one on the next day so then you don't have any
leftover debris from the day before and you don't have any worn down silicone head tips on there
so that's how it's designed use one silicone head tip per day and it is rechargeable by usb
now let's talk about the cost of new lids now like i said it's considered a premium at-home
treatment and it comes with a premium cost average cost depending on where you get it is about 300
and it usually comes with a one month supply of the silicone head tips but that's also something
to consider is you will have to buy more silicone head tips to keep using them those can run about
30 dollars for a month's supply or if you buy more in bulk you can get it for a little bit less
and then also on top of that you'll be buying cleanser or the gel that you put on there to
clean the eyelids with so just remember that to keep using this there is an additional cost
every month pretty much and i'll put links below of a couple places that you can actually get new
lids so you can actually check out the updated prices down there now how well did this work for
me now to be honest deep down i kind of didn't want this to work and the reason why is because
when a device like this has a premium cost to it i'm really hesitant to recommend it to people to
patients if it doesn't have a great benefit to it because if there's a big cost it has to come with
a big benefit at least in my opinion and i do have to say this was amazing it actually works
really well for me and i'm someone that does suffer from blepharitis almost chronic blepharitis
also meibomian gland dysfunction and dry eyes and so this was right up my alley perfect for
me now i noticed that my eyelids had less inflammation they were less red my dry eye
symptoms definitely improved and this is something i'm definitely going to add into my normal dry eye
routine this is probably at least for me the best way to clean my eyelids and eyelashes at least
compared to other at-home treatments that are out there this is really unmatched right now now
ultimately do i recommend it still hesitant because there is a big cost to new lids around
300 do i recommend it yes i do if you are someone like me blepharitis meibomian gland dysfunction
you're already trying to clean your eyelids with eyelid wipes or foams which is great you're trying
to stay on top of your dry eye symptoms and meibomian gland dysfunction your blepharitis
this is something that you should try if you can afford the cost then i would say go for it this
may be something that will show and improve your dry eyes better than anything else that
you've tried and so definitely worth a try now i definitely need the comments below on this one
have you tried new lids did you like it did it work for you have you tried other treatments that
you liked better or was this the winner i'm kind of curious for all the people that have tried this
or want to try it if you have any more questions definitely leave them in the comments below
and i'll try and answer them for you now if you don't know if you have blepharitis
you're curious what it is what the treatments are for it definitely check out my in-depth
video about blepharitis right there i'm Dr. Neal Guymon, Dr. EyeGuy, stay focused