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Feeling like often overusing your eyes? Spending a long time staring at the digital screens? Dry, itchy, red, sensitive to the lights? If the answers are \u201cyes\u201d, you may be experiencing dry eye syndrome. Most people seem to understand dry eyes as an ocular manifestation. However, it can be a kind of eye disease as well. Through this article, we are going to know more about dry eye syndrome.<\/p>

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What is Dry Eye Syndrome?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

Dry eye syndrome, it\u2019s also known as dysfunctional tear syndrome. The basic explanation of it is that dry eye syndrome happens when the eyes are not able to produce adequate tears to lubricate the eyes. The disease has a great impact on patient\u2019s vision and their quality of life. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), in 2018, there are around 20 million people in the United States who have dry eye disease, and the quantity is still increasing gradually.<\/p>

It\u2019s hard to take serious of the disease at the beginning since the dry eye is also the performance of many other eye conditions, so people may not realize they have this specific eye disease. To some extent, the consequences of dry eye syndrome are underestimated. Burning, itchy, painful, and tearing\u2026are just the preliminary performances of dry eye syndrome. In severe cases, this eye disease can even cause corneal damage and visual impairment.<\/p>

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Theoretically, the dry eyes definition points out that the tear film of dry eyes preserves instability and hyperosmolarity, and the ocular surface has inflammation and damage. The definition is published in the report of the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye Workshop II (TFOS DEWS II) in 2017, which further promoted the discussion and medical research of dry eye in ophthalmology.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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What are the Causes and Symptoms of Dry Eye Syndrome?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>

The causes and the symptoms are usually related tightly. Based on the thesis in the National Library of Medicine, in America, 3.2 million women over 50 and 1.68 million men over 50 are estimated to have dry eye disease. People over 50 years old make up the majority of the dry eye population and the number of women is beyond the group of men. Meanwhile, as people get older, dry eye syndrome is becoming more prevalent.<\/p>

Gender and age are just two of the main causes of dry eyes. Furthermore, there are some other common causes:<\/p>