are your eyes dry irritated watery especially in the morning and you've tried eye drops and
other treatments and nothing really seems to work this may be the answer that you're
looking for let's focus in now a good portion of people that have these symptoms it can come from
many different things blepharitis dirty eyelids demodex recurrent corneal erosions or lack of
Thalamus where the eyelids don't close all the way in the middle of the night now likely most
people that have these symptoms actually comes from an inadequate eyelid seal so similar how
lack of Thalamus doesn't close all the way the eyelids don't properly seal together you can
think of the eyelids kind of like teeth teeth have a proper alignment when they close eyelids have a
proper alignment as well they should close right on top of each other's sealing off the eye now a
lot of people without even realizing it might have an overbite kind of like Teeth might have
an overbite the eyelids might have an overbite leaving a little bit of a gap there that leaves
the eye exposed now as doctors sometimes we'll see signs of this on the surface of the eye so I'll
ask the patient hey do you sleep with your eyes open or has anybody ever told you that you sleep
with your eyes open and unless it's obvious unless it's lag of Thalamus the eyelid is not closing at
night then a lot of times they don't even know or nobody's ever told them that because if it
is just the inadequate eyelid seal it looks like their eyes are closed they just have that overbite
that's causing that Gap and drying their eyes out now if you have this you likely have had this for
a while eventually the eye gets to a point where it just can't fight the inflammation anymore it
can't fight the dryness anymore the inflammation gets so much that it's just too much of a battle
and so then the eye symptoms start coming in the watering starts getting worse and that's also why
some eye drops or eye treatments stop working or don't really work that well is every night
when you go to bed you have that Gap flares up the dryness and the inflammation and throughout
the day you're trying to use the eye drops and dry eye treatments to backtrack a little bit and
it just becomes too much it's not enough to fight the inflammation now a good test that doctors can
do to see if someone might have inadequate eyelid seal is called the Corb Blacky lid light test you
have the patient kind of lean back close their eyes like they're going to go to sleep and we'll
put a light right on the top of the eyelid and see if any light escapes between the top and bottom
eyelid if there's light that's coming out there there's a good chance you have a gap there so
if you have this what can you actually do about it and this leads me to the answer that I was talking
about it's a new device or a new product called sleep tight sleep right now this video is not
sponsored this is actually a fairly new device or a fairly new product but so far has been having a
lot of great success so let's go over exactly what it is and how you actually use it now before we
keep going if you have any tips that have helped you definitely leave it in the comments below more
than likely your tips will actually help people out more than you will know so it's actually an
eyelid seal designed to actually keep your eyes closed at night and it's latex free hypoallergenic
Nick porous so it actually breathes at night or breeze on the skin and it's kind of like
eyelid tape so it's really safe for the skin it won't hurt to pull it off it won't take off your
eyelashes or anything like that now these are designed to actually put on at night time right
before you go to bed and usually it's recommended just to be put on one eye at least starting out
for about four to six weeks and then when you get more comfortable with it you can start wearing
them on both eyes but just remember if you have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the
bathroom you'll probably have to take one off so you can actually see to go to the bathroom so when
you put it on you're going to close your eye in your eyelid and you're going to put it on right
like that you're going to make sure that it's sealed right on the bottom of your eyelid and on
the top eyelid and it has a little tab on the side so when you actually go take it off in the morning
it's really easy to take off but yeah you're going to want to rub your fingers around the edges just
to make sure that's properly sealed and also right before you go to bed make sure that you check to
see if any light is coming through the eyelids if you see some light then it's not properly
sealed and you'll probably want to reapply it so yeah this is designed to be worn all night but if
you do have to get up and actually take it off you can actually put it back on the white slip
here and then when you go back to bed you can put it back on there but it's designed just to be used
one time so after that night you're going to take it off and throw it away when you get up in the
morning and it actually is quite comfortable I've been wearing them for a few nights and it actually
goes pretty well in fact the eye that I usually tape might actually feels pretty good in the
morning so I bet I have some type of a gap there and causing some of my symptoms so yeah then when
you get up in the morning you can just take that tab that's already made for you and slowly peel
away and it's usually recommended to kind of peel and peel at an angle downward so you're not kind
of lifting your top eyelid up but that just makes it easier to kind of take off really easy doesn't
really hurt doesn't take off your eyelashes or anything like that no it is tape so you're kind
of taking tape off but it's it's actually not that bad so really easy to use now right before you put
them on you do want to clean your eyelids and your eyelashes either using eyelid wipes or cleansing
Foams I have some videos about that I'll put the links in the description below you want to remove
all the makeup so it's just taping the eyelids the tissue you don't have anything getting in the way
so this is pretty much helping the eyelids do what they were designed to do getting a great
eyelid seal at night helping the eyes recover from the day decreasing the inflammation and
actually they're getting a lot of reports from people that say that they're getting a better
night's rest a better night's sleep when they actually use these and if you think about it
you don't have a stimulus throughout the night a dry eye or inflamed irritated eye that might
be keeping you from getting a good night's rest and so this might actually help you sleep better
sleep tight sleep right now like I said starting off you'll start with the one eye the worst eye
wear it for about four to six weeks help it recover from the inflammation and then when
you're feeling more comfortable you can start wearing it on both eyes or alternating the eye
one eye one night the other eye the other night and this is over the counter meaning you don't
need a prescription right now you can get it online for about forty dollars There is five
dollar shipping so it's about forty five dollars for 30 strips and if you're just doing the one
eye for right now that'll last you for about two months so it's actually not that bad and
I'll put a link in the description below so you can actually check that out if you want
to order some of these but you'll probably also start finding them in doctors offices around if
they provide that now this just may seem simple I mean you really are just taping your eyelids
shut but that might be exactly what you need that might be exactly what the problem is and this is
designed to give you the optimal results to fix the problem and so if you have these symptoms if
you have this problem this may be worth Earth to pick up now even though this is over the counter
I still recommend that you actually use this in conjunction working with your eye doctor
it's nice to have a baseline to know where your eyes are before you start using this and then
maybe doing a follow-up in four to six weeks just to see if it's actually helping or if
the signs or the symptoms are reducing so yeah definitely work with your eye doctor on this I
think you'll have better results now if you're looking for specific tips for eyes watering in
the morning I actually did a whole video about that that you can check out right here or you
can check out my playlist about dry eyes right here I'm Dr Neal Guymon, Dr EyeGuy, stay focused