Is Botox causing your dry eye?
A common question because dry eye itself is so calm.
When we talk about last year, we talk about retinols, all the problems that they
can cause around the, I watch my complete video on those Botox is so common.
Now there are millions of injections done every year and people.
I just think it's a wrinkle reducer, but it does so many things
now that I is one of the most common areas injected the female.
Number one is going to be the frown and the forehead men often come.
The first sign is around the eyes.
That's what bothers them.
And people think it's innocuous.
There are two main ways that it can indeed cause dry eye.
So if you're working your way through dry eye or thinking, maybe.
Irritants retinols.
You come off them for a little bit.
Last year, it was can change the color around the eye.
They can, uh, help remove good fat around the eye that makes the eye look youthful.
They can certainly change the color of the eye, but Botox is
one that stops muscle movement.
That's how it works.
It stops the muscles.
Um, it also does things with the glands.
It can stop oil production, but we're using it in wrinkle reduction.
It doesn't magically make elastin collagen and things appear.
It stops contraction.
So around the eyes I do it about once a year, once every 18 months, maybe
twice a year here, but it's really around the eye where it will cause it.
And there's two main areas.
Number one.
The crow's feet proper and that's called the orbicularis oculi muscle, very
superficial injections for trainers.
You can go to my aesthetic training center.com or for, for medical
professionals to learn these techniques.
But most people just know, Hey, I want the, those lines gone.
The second thing we're going to talk about is underneath the island.
Talking about that differently, but how could it injecting over here for
the crow's feet proper change it?
Well, because it stops muscle movement.
When you're my bone, we have glands, which are the glands along the lash line
that we often talk about for hydration.
They produce the most oils or tears.
Uh, and it's, it's a complex film that keeps the eye feeling soothe.
When you read.
Close your eyes.
When you strongly close your eyes, that's why I've ever, ever irritated eyes.
What do you do?
You kind of blink heavy and boom.
It squirts out, um, those soothing factors from the meibomian glands.
It's why it's very important to keep those glands healthy with
hygiene, but you can't do it.
If we stop the muscle movement in the crow's feet or that Erbitux.
Uh, July muscle.
So that's the first way.
So keep that in mind.
If you're getting dry eye, that might be something, skip a treatment
and see if your dry eye gets better and your blink will improve.
The blink is important and people think lashes, oh, they're just lashes.
But also remember lashes affect the air force.
To the eye.
So lashes are built.
They actually have a reason, believe it or not.
And that is the keep things out of the like pollutants, like
smoke, like a particulate matter.
That's in the air dust pollen, but when they're long, they change the flow.
So the eyelashes itself, you need that blink for them to work.
And if they're too long, it changes the flow.
So E the dynamics of flow are important, but that's the Botox around the eyes.
Area that can be affected is under the eye.
And that is what we call the tarsal pad.
And that's just below the eye.
And sometimes people want that injected because they want the fine line.
At the bottom of the eye or the, uh, um, kind of the, the tear
trough where people get fillers, they want that fine line gone.
Oftentimes there's three fours as get older.
There's multiple.
And they find if we drop a couple of units of Botox or neuromodulator, there's
several ones, Botox, Dysport, Xeomin many in other countries that it's, those
lines get better and indeed they can.
But think about the other thing it does.
It stops that muscle from contracting.
Uh, open.
I am more of a blank stare look, which people do like because a female
eye is more round and wide open.
A male eye is a little more of a BDI, a little more of a closed eye
because that frontal bone in a male develops a little frontal bossing,
a narrower eye, but for a female, they might like that drop of Botox.
Like product here opens up.
But in turn a blink open, stare, more wind flow equals dry eye,
very complex, but that's another way that Botox can cause it.
So that injection, whenever I do that, I do tell patients, Hey,
you might end up with dry eye.
If I inject there, they say, doc, I don't care.
I'll use some drops.
I love that.
Open look, and it can help with that.
And so that would be another way.
So I want you to think of that, the way to test it.
Of course, it's again, avoid that Botox injection for one treatment.
If things get better, you know, it was probably from that it's an
association people often don't think about remembering to watch my video.
On last year, it was that causes aging of the eye retinols that
can dry eye, uh, caused dry eye.
And you asked for videos on Lumify and Lumigan and in different products that
you're worried about putting in your eye and my bone Meum gland dysfunction.
We'll do more of those videos coming up this year.
Stay tuned here.
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