Dry Eye Treatment Los Angeles Patients Often Start Too Late
Say you’ve been carrying eye drops in your bag for three years. Maybe two bottles, with one more rolling around in the car. Around three every afternoon your eyes start stinging while you’re buried in a spreadsheet, so you squeeze in a drop, blink twice and carry on. It helps for twenty minutes. That’s been the whole plan, honestly. Plenty of people live like this for years before anyone looks closely. Looking closely is the job of a specialty practice. Village Eyes Optometry in Westwood calls itself LA’s first dry eye specialty practice, and the first visit is built around finding out why your eyes burn before anybody guesses at a fix. Why drops alone so often stall Drops are fine. Nobody’s telling you to toss them. But a drop sits on top of the problem, and if the problem is underneath, say an eyelid gland that’s blocked up, it’s kind of like watering a plant stuck in a pot with no drainage. Something like Meibomian gland dysfunction can hide behind plain old stinging for a lon...