So are you researching how to reduce eye swelling and treat dry eyes naturally by
performing a hot and cold compress? Well in today's video I'm doing a quick
review of the tranquiileyes XL eye mask so let's take a look! hey everyone this is
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today now there are many benefits to performing hot and cold compresses on
the eyes hot compresses are generally really good for anybody with dry eye
disease as well as other problems such as chalazion sand styes those are really
inflammation cysts of the eyelid and styes which are infections of the eyelid.
otherwise cold compresses are good for anybody with swelling around their
eyelids such as their waking up in the morning and with a swollen eyes or maybe
they have bad allergies and their eyes are swollen from that then cold
compresses can help reduce and control that swelling and there are several
different products on the market that can either help with warm compresses by
themselves or just cold compresses by themselves but there's not many that do
both at the same time and so I was doing some research and found that Tranquileyes
XL the tranquileyes XL eye mask allows you to actually use it a couple of
different ways both as a heating mask and as a cooling mask so if you're
somebody who's having trouble with dry eyes not only will it have the benefit
of actually putting some heat to your eyelids for just a few minutes but
actually a long time it actually goes up to about 25 minutes of constant heat
with this eye mask but it actually produces moist heat it actually has
these little slippers that you put the heating pack into and that actually
something that you can soak in water so it's not just releasing heat but moist
heat which makes it even more effective now this mess actually comes with a
couple of different ways you can use it it includes these kind of green little
beads in this package here that you can either heat up in the microwave if
you're doing a warm compress for dry eyes or you can actually freeze it
use it for a cold compress if you're having the eyelid swelling it even
includes this all there way to use it which are called instance these little
blue packs actually have a little metal disc inside that you make little
snapping click sounds with and then it actually instantly turns a little bit
harder and starts to radiate heat these ones I actually like a lot because I can
keep them by my bedside at nighttime before I want to do my warm compresses
before falling asleep but I'm just too tired and don't want to get up out of
bed to walk all the way to the kitchen and use the microwave to heat up the
green beads so these ones are excellent for that purpose and they are reusable
to reuse them you simply have to put them into boiling water for about three
minutes after about three minutes you remove them let them cool off and then
you can reuse them again and with the green beads and the blue instant pack
you can actually use a little tiny sock that comes along with it for those packs
these little socks you're supposed to actually rinse under cool water so that
when you put the heat pack in and you hold it to your eyes with the eye mask
it actually released moist heat and this moist heat actually not just gives you
the heat to melt the oils in the oil glands for dry eyes but actually helps
cool and soothe the eye with this moist release of water toward the surface of
the eye to help prevent dryness and irritation now if you're doing a warm
compress for something like dry eyes a chalazion or sty that heat that you're
applying to the eyelid is gonna help melt of the solidified oils in your
meibomian glands those are the glands on the eyelids and by melting those glands
they're going to secrete easier but it'll actually be more effective for you
if you do the wand compress and then follow it with an eyelid massage and
there's a couple of different methods to do an eyelid massage and if you want to
check out that I have another video here and I'll hook it up in the YouTube card
above as well as in the description below if you want to check that out and
learn a little bit more but if you're using the tranquilize XL for a cold
compress it works pretty simple you just put the eye mask itself with the beads
inside the freezer for about 20 minutes when it's cool enough then you can take
it out you put it on the eyes and relax the coolness effect of the eye mask is
going to help reduce any sort of swelling of the eyes and the
eyelids and that's gonna help a lot if you again you have really bad allergies
or maybe you have bad salt retention and you woke up with really swollen eyes
again these are excellent for reducing those swollen eyelids now another cool
benefit that I found when using this eye mask was that my wife she likes to stay
up at night and read in bed with a book light on and I'm somebody who's very
light at sleeping when there's a lot of light in the room so the real benefit of
putting these on is that it completely removes all of the light coming in from
the sides so it also works as an alternative sleep mask and I think
that's pretty cool now if you end up purchasing one of the tranquileyes XL
masks it does come with this nice little pamphlet booklet that explains more how
to use the mask for either hot compresses cold compresses whether
you're using the green beads or using the instant blue packs it'll go through
exactly how to reset those how to use those how to clean it and some safety
precautions so that you don't end up burning yourself or anything and you can
pick up these eye masks at most eye clinics most eye doctors can order them
for you otherwise you can of course check them out online I have hooked up
some links in the description below if you wanna check out updated prices but I
do think that the tranquilize eye mask is one of the more higher quality hot
compresses and cold compresses that I've seen on the market it is something
certainly you can look into if you are having bad problems with either dry eye
symptoms or if you're trying to relieve some eyelid swelling from either
allergies or if you're somebody who just wakes up with bad puffy eyelids so eye
health question of the day have you done either cold or hot compresses for your
eyes whether it's something like dry eyes you're using them for something
like eye puffiness eye allergies go ahead and comment the section below let
us know what you're using them for alright guys thanks for watching if you
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