all right winter weather is upon us as
we know it's chilly outside this morning
same way yesterday morning and with the
arid winds and the cooler temperatures
they tend to exasperate unpleasant
symptoms in those dry eyes in particular
so you know it's chilly outside it's
warm inside it can cause conditions to
flare up even more throughout the season
so recent Harvard studies shows that
more than 16 million Americans deal with
dry eye disease and twice as many women
are diagnosed than men women often have
a difficult time finding makeup also
that doesn't irritate their eyes in fact
eye doctors warned that all makeup users
should be incredibly careful when you're
using specific formulations textures
ingredients near your eyes dr. Kimberly
Reardon is a doctor of Optometry with
Florida eye specialists joining us here
this morning good morning thank you for
being here don't appreciate it so first
of all let's talk about dry I mean it's
cold outside so we kind of expect it but
we you know we'll it'll be cold for you
know maybe two months what I think
people may be may be surprised by is the
fact that that dry eye is is seasonal
it's not necessarily just during cold
months right it's all year-round but we
do see a spike when we turn the heat on
it gets drier as everything out right
factly and so the eyes are very delicate
and they respond to that too and you get
more symptoms during the wintertime as
well so I just have to ask is this when
you encourage people to use Visine or is
that just a bad idea I know it the look
the look on the doctors face what I said
that yeah no there's much better
products much better ways to treat it
than reaching for those get the read out
drops right and do it and then of course
who knew that women are more susceptible
to this than men because of maybe the
makeup that we're using or there are
certain things that we should avoid in
our makeup fantasize so women do suffer
from dry eye more than men and makeup is
a huge trigger
so there's we're gonna go over many
important things today so you know that
dry eye affects the outer part of the
eye okay and we put it right along our
eyelid so we have our nice model here to
show so there's kind of three takeaways
that I want to go over today one is the
ingredients in your makeup because not
all makeup is created equal and
sometimes it's really hard to find
makeup without all those harsh chemicals
in it but it's important to flip that
label over and take a look and make sure
you're not putting a
Harshman chemicals around your eyes and
it's like retinol finally that's what I
was going to talk about anti-aging
crease has anti-aging or anti-wrinkle
long times has retinol retinol
derivatives of that the problem with
that is under the eyelid here are
delicate oil glands so when we're
putting that there it's actually can
destroy those oil glands over time which
then you're gonna be much worse off than
just avoiding it altogether and then
when it comes to because we're talking
about those kinds of makers like liquid
eyeliner you don't suggest you don't
suggest a waterproof mascara then is
there's is it mascara in general is it
specifically the waterproof because it's
more difficult to kind of get off that's
exactly your hit the day on the head
there so with mascara avoid the
waterproof exactly you need really harsh
chemicals to get all of that makeup off
so I brought a couple of different ones
there's one that's really good called
blink you can get that at Sephora and
it's actually a microtubule formulation
so the way you get that off is just take
out soft microfiber cloth run it under
warm water let it soak on there for a
couple of minutes and they just come
right off easy what's more natural than
water - isn't that the best now we also
need to remind people about cleaning
their brushes as well
I am bad about this and it is important
why so because it harbors bacteria so we
want to make sure you clean those on a
regular basis and then when it comes to
you brought some it suggestions for
foundation I think probably every woman
I know where some kind of for of the
foundation and and that's the Annette's
makeup that typically is put on the
eyelid also so it's really close to the
eye exactly you're going up underneath
this it's all around the eye so we
typically would would recommend a liquid
foundation or there's foundation sticks
because the powder more loose powders
that you have what that ends up doing it
gets right into your tear film right and
then that just irritates the eye more so
we're talking about eyeshadows too
everybody likes to wear eyeshadow would
you recommend cream based although right
now it's kind of hard to find cuz it's
just not popular so I do recommend a
primer and then putting your powder
eyeshadow over the primer so have
something to anchor it doesn't mean it
still can't get into your tear film but
it's less likely and also avoid any lot
of glitter you know that chunky glitter
just
very no my daughter loves the glitter I
know but yeah that's yeah and it gets
into the tear film acts like a little
tiny shards of glass just tears up the
front surface of the eye can make them
very yours there's something we should
avoid then in the products that we use
to remove our makeup correct so removing
I'm glad you brought that up because
that's one of the most important things
one make sure we remove our makeup so
you want to avoid anything with alcohol
that can dry so I usually recommend
coconut oil or argan oil which are
natural ways to remove your makeup
there's even over-the-counter products
like occu soft which you can use we
usually recommend that to clean the lids
but that can you can use that to take
your makeup off as well there's also
face wipes you can get those at Trader
Joe's my seller wipes it would take off
all the makeup on the face too I think
it's important to point out that when
we're talking about dry eye or irritated
I if you let it the condition go
untreated it can permanently damage your
eyes right well it starts to aggravate
the front surface and so it can lead to
infection so I see patients with very
dry eyes that lead to infections which
is very bad and also affects your vision
and a lot of people don't realize they
may not even feel the dryness they come
in saying my visions not clear I can't
wear my contact lenses and it's all
because their eyes are very dry yeah and
you know they're dry cuz it starts to
feel like maybe have like sand or grit
in your eyes doctor thank you for being
here do appreciate it sure of course
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