Dry Eye Syndrome

The care you take of your eyes today will impact how clearly you will be able to see as you age. Small steps taken now can make a substantial difference when it comes to the health of the eyes. For example, even slight changes in diet can have a profound impact, helping to reduce risks for a host of vision-stealing disorders while offering a number of other health benefits.

What does having dry eyes have to do with wearing contact lenses and birth control pills? Can birth control cause dry eyes?  As it turns out, there is indeed a relationship between dry eye symptoms in women using oral contraceptives who wear contact lenses.

This August, we celebrate the opening of the first Seeta Eye Center in Poughkeepsie in 1968, establishing what has now become the longest functioning ophthalmology practice in our region. Founded by Dr.

Millions of men and women in America struggle with dry eyes. Symptoms of dry eyes often subside after a few months, but for some, redness, inflammation and dryness persist.

When our eyes are self-moisturizing correctly, we tend to take it for granted. We don’t think about how our eyes continuously manage to stay moist in a dry environment, or what would happen if it stopped. If you regularly get dry eye syndrome, however, you start to appreciate the process a lot more.