What that means is depending on the severity of your condition (Take our free assessment here to learn more) we have a Care Pathway, in place to work through the stages of your dry eye care. After reaching out to all our contacts we have found the solution to the challenges we were facing with the hot compress and are proud to announce that we are now the sole distributor in Europe of the The Heated Eye Pad Ophthalmic Warmer (developed in the US and is FDA approved and CE marked by the Dry Eyes Clinic) and have incorporated it in to our Complex and Simple Care Pathway. In more severe cases intervention with LipiFlow may be advised but there is still a role to be played by Heated Eye Pad in the maintenance of a sufficient lipid level within the eye.
In mild cases Heated Eye Pad may help delay the progress of the disease prior to intervention with LipiFlow. People with MGD will often keep on getting these blockages so it important that they are monitored, advised and retreated as the disease develops. Heat effectively melts and dissolves the blockages allowing the lipid to flow again. There are short term treatments that mask the cause and give symptomatic relief for mild dry suffers, these are commonly eye drops, however in order to treat the causes at the source we must find a way to unblock the glands and this is where heat and manipulation comes in. In fact, according to research it is estimated over 86% of the 100 million suffers worldwide have some form of MGD which stems from a deficiency in the oily lipid layer of the tear film.
We are often asked when and where do other treatments and relief’s that are available fit in to our care pathway.Īs a sufferer of MGD or Blepharitis you will know that that the most common cause is the blocked Meibomian Glands in the eye which stops the lipid tear film protecting the evaporation of the tears and results in itchy and gritty eyes. At The Dry Eye Clinic, we have been providing care and guidance for suffers of dry eye ranging from mild to severe since 2015 with our Gold Standard Dry Eyes Clinic treatment pathway – including The Lipiflow System.
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