so are you curious about how to get rid of red eyes? Well in this video, I'm gonna
go over the best eye drop for red eyes so that you don't look like you have
pink eye or that you've been smoking something, so let's take a look hey
everyone this is Doctor Joe Allen here from doctor eye health the channel that helps
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check out the show notes and the links below for the information about all of
the eye drops that would go over, otherwise let's talk about red eyes. so
there are many different causes for red bloodshot eyes, right it could be caused
by allergies, dryness, infections maybe trauma, maybe you've poked yourself
in the eye or maybe you've been around a lot of smoke or you just haven't been
sleeping well and this can become a major issue especially if you're in a
social interaction with someone like going on a date for the first time or
maybe you're at a job interview or perhaps you're gonna snap a photo for
like Instagram or even shoot a YouTube video and you're like oh my god so I
wanted to shoot this video just to give you some pro tips and one of the best
eye drops to get rid of these nasty red eyes now the most famous eye drops for
getting the red out are either gonna be one called Visine or another brand
called Clear eye now the big issue that most eye doctors have with these eye
drops is that they have a nasty little ingredient in them called
tetrahydrozoline or another one called naphazoline. now these ingredients
act as what's called the sympathomimetic now sympathomimetic means it actually
causes blood vessel constriction so onto your eye you have these large red blood
vessels these blood vessels are really what's causing your eye to be red and
then this medication acts as that basil constrictor so the blood vessels clamp
down and get really tiny and you no longer see the blood vessels you just
see the white sclera part of the eye now the big issues that I doctors have with
these drops are one that these drops tend to have a rebound effect so after
you use the drop it makes the blood vessels constrict but they tend to
rebound dilating even more ci ends up looking
her head than they did just even at the start now the issue is that you use this
happened so you use the drop again and it becomes a vicious cycle of the
constant oh my as a read use the drop they get white and then they rebound get
worse and use the drop again now the second issue with these drops is that
they tend to lose their effectiveness over time something called tachyphylaxis
so you use the drops once and they work great but then over time you continue to
use them and you just never seem to get the same effect so the I drop out rather
see people use for occasional redness is one that came up just this last year and
that one is called Lumify now if you've never seen Lumify before it is
made by the Bausch and Lomb company and this I drop isn't over the counter I drop so
you do not need a prescription for it now this drop works through an active
ingredient called Bromonidine, bromonidine has actually been out for a long
time and at its full dose which is much higher than Lumify it actually is used
to lower eye pressures for individuals with glaucoma now if you're a
pharmacology nerd out there these drops work as a peripheral selective alpha to
inhibitor which means that it actually just causes vasoconstriction just like
the other eyedrops do but these eye drops and most doctors will prefer for
occasional redness because they help alleviate some of those other potential
side effects such as the rebound redness and that loss of effectiveness over time
and these eye drops work really quickly it takes less than a minute to work and
lasts over eight hours plus if you're someone who wears contact lenses you can
still use these drops you just want to use these drops and wait at least 10
minutes before putting you two contact lenses in now of course if you're going
to try these drops out make sure you read the full list of instructions so
that you don't have any problems with allergic reactions or any other sort of
side effects now the usual price for Lumify is usually around $12 u.s. but of
course you can check out the updated prices through the links I've included
in the description below so for as awesome as these eye drops are and I do
personally use them from time to time I want you to know I make these videos to
try and help people with their eyes and I think it's important to understand
that your blood vessels on the eye dilate for a reason they dilate to let
more oxygen and nutrients get to the surface of the eye to
try and help repair whatever's causing the irritation so if you're constantly
using some sort of vasoconstrictor I've dropped that's actually gonna pinch down
on your on those blood vessels and prevent that nutrients from getting to
the surface of the eye and repairing whatever's causing that irritation in
the first place so really in short you know it's okay to be using these sort of
get the write out get the readout drops on occasion but constantly using it may
actually help slow down the whole body's process of naturally recovering the
problem in the first place actually if you're somebody who has chronically red
or bloodshot eyes it's probably best for you to get into seer local eye care
professional just to make sure it's not something worse a lot of times just
using normal lubricating eyedrops actually it's better for cases of like
sun damage to the eye dryness or maybe smoke irritation because those drops are
gonna help reduce the inflammatory signals on the surface of the eye they
cost the blood vessels to dilate in the first place now
using those sort of normal lubricating drops may take a little bit more time to
get rid of the redness but they will overall help repair the surface of the
eye rather than just sort of masking the symptoms with those artificial blood
vessel constrictor eyedrops and those blood vessel constrictor eyedrops are
really reducing the amount of oxygen and nutrients and getting to that surface of
the eye so yeah sometimes this using the regular like dry eye drops are better if
you haven't seen my other video on what I consider to be the best eye drops for
dry eyes I will hook that up here in the YouTube card above as well as in the
description below so I health question of the day have you tried luma Phi yet
or have you had success with other types of get the red out eyedrops go ahead and
comment in the section below and remember sometimes the best tips come
from you and the rest of the doctor eye health community alright everyone thanks
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