Mucous deficiency sticking point?

[czee]

Through diet and supplementation I've been able to massively improve my dry eye symptoms to the point where some days I feel 100% normal, but I cant seem to be maintain that level. Some days are worse than others and my symptoms are mainly restricted to the evenings. Is this maybe due to the fact that and I am probably mucous deficient, and therefore have to wait some time for the goblet cell density to increase?

[Robert Latkany MD]

Good thought but probably not true. What is more likely there is something that happens around you in the evening that is making matters worse. Are you always at home in the evening? Do you cook dinner and the kitchen bother your eyes? and so on. There are probably external triggers that can explain your symptoms that you have yet to figure out.

[czee]

I am almost always home in the evenings, yes. I don't cook though. What are the most common things that can aggravate dry eye in the evenings?

[Trac]

My eyes often hurt the most in the evening. I figure it is a accumulation of all things my eyes don't like over the course of the day. Being on the computer is one of the worse things for my eyes, so is being around perfume, etc. Any type of stress including emotional stress makes them worse, but I have a really bad case of dry eyes.

[Robert Latkany MD]

Something in your house or something you are doing in your house. A pet, the kitchen, your dinner, a fan, air conditioner, or just a result of a lousy day at work and the toll it has taken on your eyes and then you start feeling it at night to name a few. The list is endless.