Dry Eye Treatment: The Real Causes and What Actually Works

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 -0500

A woman I’ll call Helen came in for a routine blood pressure follow-up about eighteen months after she’d been started on a beta-blocker. She was doing well. But near the end of the appointment, almost apologetically, she mentioned that her eyes had been bothering her for much of that time. Burning. Grittiness. That maddening feeling that something is caught in your eye when there’s nothing there. She’d been using artificial tears, the brand her pharmacist suggested, and they helped, but only for twenty minutes or so before the symptoms returned.

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Dry Eye Treatment: The Real Causes and What Actually Works