Eye Tearing

What is Eye Tearing?

Eye tearing can significantly disrupt daily life. It’s not only about constantly carrying a handkerchief, but it also makes it difficult to have clear vision with watery eyes. Just like when we open our eyes underwater and see blurry, if water constantly accumulates in front of our eyes due to tearing, we are unable to see clearly.

What Causes Eye Tearing?

Surprisingly, eye tearing can sometimes be caused by dry eyes. When the front layers of our eyes dry out, a signal is sent to our brain to produce more tears, and the brain hastily starts producing poor-quality tears.

Especially when we concentrate on something, our blinking reflex decreases significantly. Since tear production only happens when the eyelids blink, the reduction in blinking leads to dry eyes. This is why we may experience stinging, redness, and excessive tearing when using computers or tablets for long periods, driving at high speeds, reading carefully, or watching TV. In these cases, consciously opening and closing our eyes and increasing our blinking frequency will help.

Using artificial tears can also provide additional relief.

Other common causes of eye tearing include foreign particles in the eye, allergies, eyelash follicle inflammation, eyelid margin diseases, inflammation of the eye surface (conjunctivitis),inward-growing eyelashes, excessive exposure to sunlight, and blockage of the tear ducts.

Eye Tearing Treatment in Ankara

To understand whether any of these conditions are present, you should consult an eye doctor. If a foreign object is present, it should be removed, and diagnosing and treating diseases that damage the cornea, as well as treating infections, is crucial to prevent permanent damage. Surgical treatment is possible for inward-turned eyelids and eyelashes.

In cases of inflammation and allergies, targeted treatment will alleviate your symptoms. In many cases, simple measures recommended by your doctor, such as wearing sunglasses, changing makeup products, using warm compresses, or eyelash follicle cleaning shampoos, will help relieve your complaints.

In the case of tear duct blockage, surgical treatment is required, as continuous tearing may lead to severe crusting and eventually cause serious infections that swell the entire face.

These surgeries are often exaggerated by doctors who lack experience or knowledge, and as a result, patients may avoid this surgery, unnecessarily living with eye tearing and experiencing severe infections at certain times in their lives.

The surgeon you contact should have experience in oculoplastic surgery, as this will ensure a short, complication-free recovery and a high success rate for the surgery.