Experience effective and affordable dry eye treatment with the most advanced technology available today, including Equinox Low-Level Light Therapy (LLLT). Our team provides personalized care, ensuring effective and lasting relief from dry eye symptoms.
What Is Dry Eye Syndrome?
Dry eye syndrome is a common condition where your eyes don't produce enough tears or the right quality of tears to keep them lubricated. This can lead to discomfort, redness, itching, and a gritty sensation in the eyes. Causes include aging, environmental factors, certain medications, underlying health conditions, and excessive screen time like cell phone and computer use. Left untreated, it can affect vision and overall eye health.
What about Watery eyes?
Watery eyes are often caused by failed meibomian glands which produce the important OIL ingredient of your tears. Why are your eyes watering? It is because nothing is stabilizing your excessive tears. The water spills over your cheek and then your eyes get triggered to produce more water over and over again.
Fortunately, our eye care team offers effective treatments to ease symptoms, increase oil production, improving tear volume when needed or tear quality when needed, ensuring better eye comfort and function.
Personalized Dry Eye Treatment in Carthage
Our comprehensive dry eye (and watery eye) treatments provide long-lasting relief and improve your overall eye health. Some of our advanced treatment options include:
- Prescription Eye Drops: We offer medicated eye drops that reduce inflammation, increase tear production, and enhance tear film stability.
- Lid Hygiene: Proper eyelid hygiene, and prescription drops can help remove demodex mites and bacteria that grow on you eye lids, reducing dryness and irritation.
- Allergy Treatment: We will recommend the best over the counter products to help you avoid wasting money with various counterfeit eye drops, and when needed, we can prescribe stronger treatment to calm your eyes from Texas and Louisiana pollen during the worst allergy seasons.
Equinox: An Advanced Dry Eye Treatment
For patients with more severe or persistent dry eye symptoms, we offer advanced treatments to provide lasting relief. One of the cutting-edge treatments available at Eye Central Carthage is the Equinox system for low-level light therapy.
This innovative technology uses low level light therapy to stimulate clogged meibomian glands in your eyelids, allowing the oil to flow freely. This results in improved tear production and quality.
The Equinox system is a safe, non-invasive and effective option for those who have not found relief with conventional treatments.
By stimulating these glands, Equinox LLLT helps to:
- Unclog old and hardened tear glands and ducts: Over time the oils produced by our eyes intended for our tears get clogged and as they harden, they stop the production of tomorrow's tears. If too much time passes without removing the clog, many glands will die. The therapy targets clogged glands, softens the old oil clumps and finally releases the trapped contents.
- Enhance Meibomian Gland Function: The light therapy rejuvenates the meibomian glands, improving their ability to produce the essential oils that prevent tears from evaporating too quickly.
- Reduce Inflammation: The anti-inflammatory properties of the light therapy help to soothe irritated tissues, reducing the redness and discomfort associated with dry eye.
- Promote Natural Tear Production: By targeting the root causes of dry eye, Equinox LLLT encourages the natural production of tears, providing a more sustainable and long-lasting solution compared to artificial tears.
Why Choose Eye Central Carthage?
- Experienced Optometrists: Our team has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating dry eye syndrome, offering expert care tailored to your needs.
- Advanced Technology: We use the latest diagnostic and treatment technologies to provide effective dry eye care.
- Personalized Approach: We customize each treatment plan to address the specific causes and symptoms of your dry eye, ensuring optimal results.