So what are the best dry eye drops? Well in this video I'm gonna be reviewing my
three favorite eye drops that can help relieve even the most severe dry itchy
eyes so let's take a look. hey everyone welcome I'm dr. Joseph Allen here from
dr. eye health the channel helps you with the eyes, vision, and finding the best
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throughout the video check out the show notes and links below for further
information about everything that we go over including pricing as well as active
ingredients of all the different eye drops that we cover. now if you are like
most individuals including myself you've probably already tried four or five
different artificial tears with very little success and in fact if you go to
the pharmacy you're probably overwhelmed by the complete just expansion of how
many different tears there are on the market there's you know there's pink
ones there's blue ones there's green ones and how are you supposed to know
which one is the best for you so now let's go over my three best dry eye
drops that don't address just one part of the tear film but address all layers
of the tear film. now the first tear I want to review is Refresh Optive Advanced
now again the reason I love Refresh Optive Advanced is because it replenishes all
three layers of the tear film it helps replenish the lipid layer the front
surface of the tears helps with preventing the evaporation of the tears
you helps really replenish the aqueous component the watery component of the
tear film and then it helps protect the mucin component of the tear film that's
the back portion of the tear film that helps keep the liquid portion of the
tears attached to the ocular surface now this drop again excellent works for most
people really well doesn't really blur your vision at all this medication does
come in a larger kind of dropperette bottle and it's safe to use multiple
times a day however if you're somebody who is either very sensitive to
preservatives or if you've maybe had some sort of eye surgery such as either
cataract surgery or LASIK you're often using many different eye drops after
those sort of procedures and all those different eye drops, antibiotics, steroids
those medications have preservatives in them so if you're using artificial
tears on top of that it's best to go to a non preserved artificial tear and
that's one of the other reasons I like Refresh Optive Advanced is because
they have a non preserved formulation if you've never seen one of these they come
in these little individual dropperettes
which are actually pretty convenient you can store them either in your pocket, a
purse, or a backpack but you just twist off the top if never used one before you
twist off the top you go ahead and put the drops in and then after using them
you can actually go ahead and try to recap the solution and you can do that
because they actually give you a little bit more than just one drop for each eye
and if you can do that you can save it for maybe an hour or two and use it
again later and again when you have non preserve drops there's no limit to how
many you can use feel free to use them as many times as you need to throughout
the day again the Refresh Optive Advanced I love because it has those
benefits of treating all layers of the tear film and it has a non preserved
option now let's go over the Systane brand of eye drops
now Systane has been out for a long time it's a famous name a lot of eye doctors
strongly recommend them and that's because they are that made by the Alcon
company who is always doing research and trying to improve their products now
Systane Ultra has been out for a long time that really really addresses the
aqueous form of dry eye disease then they had Systane Balance and that one
is more for addressing the evaporative component of dry eye disease but
recently they came out with Systane Complete and Systane Complete again
addresses all three layers of the chair film but it also has what's called nano
drop technology which really helps adhere the solution to the surface of
the eye and the effectiveness of that the active ingredient in protecting the
surface of the eye now again this medication is excellent if you've been
recommended by your doctor to use Systane products then perhaps check out
Systane complete however the only downside I find with Systane Complete
is that you know at the timing of this video they do not have a non preserved
option so you're only gonna find them in the larger bottles and you maybe don't
want to use it more than four times a day now the final drop I want to review
is made by the Occusoft company and thats called Retaine MGD now Retaine MGD...MGD
stands for meibomian gland disease or meibomian gland dysfunction and again
those are those oil glands that produce the lipid layer of your tears so if
you've seen a doctor and you've been told hey you have evaporative dry eye
disease you have meibomian gland disease then this would probably be one of the
best drops for you to try because it does address the all three layers of the
tear film but it has a strong emphasis on restoring that meibomian gland the
lipid layer of the tears in fact it's such a so-so geared for it that it
actually has its main two active ingredients are mineral oil and light
mineral oil so it is a little bit a little bit more sticky I find when I'm
using it on my eyes but it does help prevent the evaporation of those tears
in addition this drop has what's called positively charged nano droplets so
because the cornea is actually a negatively charged structure by having
positively charged drops they actually help adhere to the surface of the eye a
little bit better as well now what's really cool is that this Retaine MGD also
comes in a non preserved dropper at which again I really love because you can use
this many times as day as you need to the only real thing I wanted to kind of
point out to people is that if you look at it it's kind of a milky color it
really does kind of look like milk in that dropperette and that's not that
it has been either an infected or that somehow it gone bad or anything like
that I'm actually people come into the clinic and say hey about this whole box
but I think they've gone bad they're all off the kind of like a milky white color
nope that is normal for this type of eye drop this artificial tear just comes in
this kind of milky white color so again that's normal but again an excellent
option if you're having bad dry eye issues again all these different eye
drops are fantastic certainly if you haven't tried them give them a try you
know if you want to check out other pricing information or other active
ingredients I've hooked up some additional information and all the links
below of course talk to your eye doctor make sure you ask them more questions
about what type of dry eye disease you have and what type of treatment they
recommend for you because there's a lot more to dry eyes than just artificial
tears perhaps if you're someone who doesn't like using eye drops you have a
hard time getting them in then perhaps check out natural ways to treat dry eye
I actually have another video on natural treatments for dry eyes and hook that up
here in the YouTube card up above as well as in the description below
so high health question of the day which eye drops are you using have you tried
any in this video which ones are your favorites go ahead and comment in the
section below I'd love to hear from you alright everyone thanks so much for
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