Dry eye disease can make wearing contact lenses challenging. Whether you experience discomfort with your current lenses or have underlying dry eye disease but still want to wear contacts, there are options and strategies to help you achieve both comfort and clear vision.

Wearing contact lenses with dry eye disease is possible with the right approach and products. By exploring the latest lens technologies and working closely with your eye care professional, you can find solutions that provide both comfort and clear vision.

The Struggle is Real

Dry eyes are annoying anytime, but at night, they turn into a whole new beast. Imagine: trying to sleep with gritty, burning eyes, or waking up with them glued shut. For many with dry eye disease, this is their reality.

Sunshine, beaches, barbecues...but wait, are dry eyes holding you back from summer fun? Don't let them! Here are your sizzling tips to keep your eyes cool and refreshed

Low-Level Light Therapy (LLLT) is another therapy consideration for those with dry eye disease due to Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. Quick, safe and painless, it works via photobiomodulation on the eyelids and periorbital area — using LED light of near-infrared wavelength.

A new innovative lubricating option to relieve the signs and symptoms of dry eye is the preservative-free, eye drop emulsion, Cationorm®.

Our modern life keeps us inside fairly often.... be it too hot outside or raining....whether we're working, socialising or relaxing; most of us spend a lot of time inside, on screens. So if our eyes are sore, is it because of Digital Eyestrain or Dry Eyes?

How is being back at work going? Are you eyes feeling tired, sore, gritty?

Our eyes weren’t designed to be constantly in front of a screen; especially for long periods with in temperature controlled environments.

Sleep and Dry Eye Disease appear to have an interesting relationship. Poor sleep impacts many aspects of tear production and how your eyes feel…

Eye Drops? Artificial Tears? Lubricants? Whatever you want to call them lubricating eye drops do form the basis of most dry eye management plans.

Warm Compresses play a key in managing tired eyes, eye irritation, blepharitis, styes, meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) and Dry Eye Disease.

How do you keep your lids and lashes clean??? Do you need to?

Warm compresses form a key part of the management of meibomian gland dysfunction - key reason for dry, tired eyes and red eyelid margins. 

As you now know, Dry Eye Disease is a chronic, multifactorial condition. It doesn’t occur suddenly and unfortunately things can take a while to improve! But the good news is they can improve.