The #1 Best Watery Eyes Remedy (causes and treatment) - Eye Doctor Explains

in this video I'm going to explain what  causes watery eyes as well sharing how to stop frequent tearing and the number one best remedy for watery eyes that I use  in the eye clinic let's take a look [Music] hey Eyes and Shine my friends. Dr Allen here  from the Dr Eye Health show helping you learn everything about the eyes and keeping them  healthy. so if you're somebody who struggles with watery tearing eyes whether it be in both  eyes or maybe just one eye at a time it can be really frustrating and unsightly people can  often even ask you why you're crying why your face is always wet and unfortunately in the Eye  Care Community if you go in to see an eye doctor sometimes they tell you a weird answer they'll in  fact tell you that you have dry eyes and you're probably thinking wait no my eyes are not dry they  are wet and while it is true that sometimes your eyes do water in response to dryness it is not  always the case and I see a lot of young doctors make the mistake of saying it's dry eye without  investigating further of other common causes and the number one cause of watery eyes that I look  for in the clinic is that of a blocked tear duct and this is something that you can have in both  eyes but I'll tell you uh it's something that if you have one watery eye this is probably my top  differential because your team here's a generated here in the lacrimal gland and then the tears  flow and get pushed by the eyelids when you blink down toward the punctum and then the tears drain  into the nasolacrimal drainage system here and ultimately your tears then flow down and absorb  through your nasal mucosa in fact that's why when somebody cries they have a runny nose because  their tears flow and then drain out through their nose however if there's a blockage anywhere in  the nasolacrimal drainage system here then tears aren't going to be able to drain the tears are  just going to build up on the eye and that's going to overflow down the eyelid and down the face  blockage of the nasol drain system occurs for multiple reasons it can be just simply age it can  also be due to Medical Treatments such as either radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer also some  eye drop medications like those for glaucoma but also largely due to inflammatory reasons such as  maybe an infection or blepharitis or buildup of oils and skin cells as well as bacteria on along  the eyelids and I hate to say it but even dry AI has been implicated as being a potential cause  of this it is also possible for some people to have an active infection of the nasolacomose sac  that we call a decryocystitis and oftentimes it's pretty easy to even self-diagnose to some degree  if you push here on your lacrimal Sac next to your nose and kind of push up toward the eye you  can push on the candyliculi here and basically push out pus that'll come out of the punctum  and that's how we diagnose that and then you definitely need an antibiotic in that case also  from infections people can develop dacryoliths which are small concretions of calcium that build  up in the nasol system but otherwise again a lot of the blockages occur due to inflammation and  that leads to the frequent tearing or epiphera which is the medical term for tearing of the eye  in the eye clinic an eye doctor can often test if there is proper drainage by doing what's called  A Jones test where we put fluorescein sodium in this inferior cul-de-sac here and then we monitor  how fast it's resolving or how fast it's draining and then if your doctor is concerned that there  is a blood blockage they can do what's called a dilation in irrigation where we use a irrigating  solution and basically pump that through the nasal lacrimal system so that in salt water saline  solution drains and you can taste in the back of your throat oftentimes if there is a blockage  the irrigation solution will basically push that blockage down and through the drainage canal and  it opens up and basically solves your problem I would say that's probably the number one remedy  for constant tearing is just having your nasal lacrimal system flushed it's pretty amazing  to me how many patients will just thank me so much because they finally did this after seeing  multiple doctors I know not every doctor likes due to dilation irrigation but it's something  that I find just helps a lot of my patients and definitely let me know in the comment section  if you've had irrigation of your lacrimal system or if you think it's something you may need  unfortunately if we do find that there is a blockage and we can't clear it with the irrigation  or something simple there in the clinic alone then we do have to refer for more invasive surgery  to clear that out and find out what's causing it now another common cause of tearing on the  the eye has to do with drainage issues and by drainage issues this could be a couple of things  but it mainly means that tears are not being siphoned along the eyelid over to the punctum  to drain collect correctly in the first place one of the more common causes I see in older  individuals is something called an ectropion and this can be mild or severe but this lower  eyelid starts to fall away from the globe and so tears pull up and end up just kind of  draining off of the eyelid straight down the face another issue that I see more commonly  even in young people has to do with what's called conjunctivalchalasis and that's where this clear  membrane on the front surface of the eye called the conjunctiva becomes inflamed and redundant  and then it ends up growing over and kind of flopping over the lower eyelid a little bit and  that prevents the tears from properly flowing to the nose and a lot of times you can tell this  just by looking at somebody because the tears aren't flowing here by the nose instead the tears  are kind of flowing here by the side of their face again because the tears aren't even allowed to  flow toward the nose they're just kind of hitting that conj and then flowing out with somebody with  an ectropion typically we do need to refer that for surgery repair otherwise for conjunctival  chalasis we can try conservative treatment by reducing the inflammation on the eye trying to  get that conch to kind of tighten up on its own otherwise a lot of the time we do also have to  refer that out just so that they can excise that conch tissue and then get it to again tighten  up surgically in addition to these frequent medical causes that of just allergies if it  is usually Springtime or fall people who have allergic reactions to pollen and other antigens  in the air this can cause irritation to the eyes causing them to turn red inflame the eyelids  causing them to swell as well as the surface of the eye and then your body just in a reaction  creates More Tears trying to flush any of those antigens down to the lacrimal sac and get those  out of the body and allergies typically present with other symptoms right including itchy eyes  maybe a runny nose or sinus congestion maybe wheezing Hard Times breathing that sort of thing  but oftentimes in the case of an ocular allergy where your eyes are getting puffy red irritated  then yes using lubricating artificial tears can help cold compresses are conservative treatment  but right now we have two eye drop medications that are now available over the a counter here in  the U.S that work fantastic one of them is called pad today and one's called elastic caft they both  come in a one day drop formulation that you can buy over the counter and usually it takes care of  a lot of the itching symptoms but also just helps eye allergies kind of resolve overall now I'd  say for most people those drops work probably 90 percent of the time and finally yes dry eye  syndrome can be a potential cause for watering tearing eyes and again I know it sounds kind  of counterintuitive because you'd think no my eyes are watering all the time how could they be  dry well because we've talked about in a lot of other videos the the surface of the eye and  the tear film is very complex it depends on a level of balance a homeostasis of different  components all kind of working in the correct way at the right time and so if your eyes are  in fact dry your body can sense this and will try to correct the problem Itself by the only way  it really knows and that's to produce more liquid through your tears however as we kind of discussed  if your eyes are are tiering just on like one side that usually isn't due to something like dry eyes  or allergies then I'm thinking more like it's a blocked single tear duct or again perhaps there's  a drainage issue with just tears not being able to flow toward the nasal duct otherwise there  are many treatments for dry eyes many of which we've covered here on this channel but some of the  easier ones that people run to are just artificial tears staying hydrated as well as getting good  sleep there is research that shows even just two nights of decreased rest can result in dry  eye symptoms but hey if you found value in this video please hit that like button for me and  subscribe to the channel if you are new if you have a question about anything at the eyes please  let us know in the comment section because I do read those and oftentimes those get turned into  future videos if you do want to learn more about dry eyes or other treatments that you can do at  home to take care of your eyes and vision check out our video playlist right over here other let's  keep an eye on it and we'll see in the next one [Music]

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Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 12 2022