now i myself suffer from dry eyes and dry eye syndrome and i've been looking
for a dry eye treatment that i can use at home this is
the NuLids dry eye device from NuSight medical which helps
improve natural oil production of the eyelids to help improve dry eye
symptoms the day you use it and to help prevent dry eyes into the
future that's today's video let's take a look
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mentioned including clinical studies i'll include links in the video
description below so you can check that out whenever you want
now again i personally suffer from dry eye syndrome i have what is called
evaporative dry eye disease which is the most common form
of all dry eye that's where the tears on the surface of my eye
evaporate really quickly and that leaves all the salt content of the tears behind
which increases the osmolarity of the tears causing
redness burning gritty sensation on the eyes makes it difficult for me to focus
on the computer and makes it even difficult for me to wear
contact sometimes and about 86 percent of
everybody out there with dry eye syndrome share
this common form of evaporation and this is usually due
to something called meibomian gland dysfunction these are the oil glands
of your eyelid that are supposed to produce this thin layer of oil
to stop your tears from evaporating and for many of us
these oil glands stop producing correctly and the oils become more like
wax and when that happens there's not enough
oils getting onto your tears to prevent that evaporation
and unfortunately with that disease the oils
eventually solidify become waxy and then the oil glands can even die
and once they're dead you can't get them back so treating them
earlier on and preventing it is going to be key and that's where the dry eye home
treatment of the new lids device comes in now this is not a sponsored
video i've been using this personally for
about two months now and i've been having a lot of success with it so
i really wanted to make this video and just kind of share this knowledge with
you guys now if you pick up the device and look
at it you'll realize it looks a lot like an electric toothbrush
but it works because it has the soft silicone tip at the front top that you
replace every day and this tip oscillates back and forth
which is used for both cleaning the eyelid as well as
activating the meibomian glands within the eyelid
itself so the cleaning process helps get rid of dead skin oils
bacteria or mites that could be living on the surface of your eyelashes and
eyelids that helps clean that off give you a
class a clean fresh new surface as well as again agitating and
activating your oil glands along the eyelid margins so that the
oils actually start producing and get out of those glands and onto the
surface of your eyelid and into your tears normally these
meibomian glands of your eyelid only produce when you blink and
completely blink and many of us either don't blink enough because we're
staring at computer screens all day or maybe we just don't blink completely
like myself being a contact lens where that's pretty common to see so my oil
glands don't open up and release enough throughout the day and this device when
you activate those glands it's kind of like at least i think of it
like this it's kind of like blinking a thousand times in a matter of just 30
seconds that means those trapped oils in those
glands are going to be releasing into your tear film now how the device
works is that you only need to use it for 30 seconds on
each eye every day so there's a total of only
one minute every day making it super simple to use
when you use it you have to replace the tip of the device every day
with a new silicone tip and then you're supposed to put a
cleaning solution onto the tip of the device you can use
different solutions depending on what you want in the clinical studies they
use hypochlorous acid if you're not sure what that is
i'll i did a video on that in the past and i'll hook a video
uh link to that in the video description below if you want check that out a
little bit more otherwise there's many other eyelid
cleaning phones and solutions you can use as well
and again i'll put a link to a couple of those different ones that i've used and
had success with again in the video description below if you want to check
those out otherwise to use it you have a couple of
different methods there's the direct method
where you put it directly onto the eyelid and you can pull down the eyelid
a little bit or lift up on the top eyelid and you put
directly on the eyelid margin that'll help buff out any sort of
scaling or rough edges on the oil glands themselves
or you can just do the indirect method which is what i do which i find this to
be a lot easier where you close your eyes and then you
just put the device directly onto the edge of the eyelid
brushing back and forth so that you reach all of the different meibomian
glands and again you do that for 15 seconds on
the lower part of the eyelid and then another 15 seconds on the
upper part of the eyelid and the device itself even
stops after 15 seconds so it's easy to keep
track of how long you've been doing it so again a total of 30 seconds on one
eyelid and another 30 seconds on the other and
then you're all done that way the device will help treat
blepharitis the buildup of skin oils dead skin cells and bacteria around the
eyelid margin that causes the eyes to look red puffy
and irritated as well as killing off any sort of
demodex mites which can live in the eyelashes
and i have a whole other video on that if you want to learn more about demodex
if you've never heard of that and again i'll put a video link to that
in the video description below but then because of that agitation those
oil glands are going to be producing and again that helps treat
dry eyes again i've been personally using it for the last two months i do
keep it right next to my toothbrush so that after i'm done brushing my teeth
in the morning i can just activate the device
use it for one minute and i'm done even when i started
using it i actually started using it both in the morning and at night because
it just synced really well with brushing my teeth twice a day now if you
did want to read the clinical studies about the device i'll try to include
those in the video description below but if you read that you'll see that
people had an eighty percent improvement in their meibomian gland
secretions resulting in a tbot or tear breakup time
score of a 60 improvement and that's a bigger
deal to eye doctors like myself in the clinic we always look at the tear
break up time that's how fast the oil goes on the
surface of the eye start to separate and anything less than
10 seconds on the eye is significant for evaporative dry eye
disease furthermore the people in the studies
using the device for at least 30 days ended up reporting that they were able
to decrease the amount of eye drops they had to use throughout the day just as
lubrication drops and some people could even discontinue
expensive medications specifically to treat the dry eye
syndrome again i've been personally using it for the last two months
i don't feel like my eyes are as dry my eyes aren't reflex
tearing when i'm staring at the computer as much you've probably noticed that
yourself where your eyes just start watering for
some unknown reason and then my contact lenses feel better
throughout the day so my eyes aren't drying out
earlier in the evening and i can pretty much wear them throughout the entire day
now you can usually find and purchase the new leads device online for
somewhere between three and four hundred dollars us
however i have seen it as part of a starter kit for only 250
u.s with about a month supply of the little silicone
tips and i think that's an affordable alternative
considering for individuals whose oil glands
continue to progress and get worse to the point where they need in-office
treatments like myself i've had several in-office treatments to
get my oil glands pumping again because they were
so clogged up and that's important because if they do get clogged up again
they can die and then you can never get them back and
a lot of those in-office treatments they are expensive they can cost 600 to
thousands of dollars for a single treatment
and many people need multiple treatments and insurance doesn't cover those
so again as an alternative to those other expensive options i think this is
very effective and i've noticed a lot of the great improvements in
general but again i think the people who are going to benefit the most are
individuals who suffer from meibomian gland dysfunction and overall
evaporative dry eye disease where if you're somebody
who has something like aqueous deficient dry eye and you're
just not producing enough of the liquid portion of your tears
again there's different types then this may not be the best option for you
if you yourself are not sure if you have meibomian gland dysfunction
evaporative dry eye or exactly what is causing your dry eye symptoms i do
encourage you to reach out to your local eye care professional
get an assessment for dry eye disease to figure out exactly what is causing it
if the nullitudes device is going to work for you or if you require some
other more advanced treatment as you can probably tell from this video
alone and for my other videos on dry eye you can start to appreciate how complex
dry eye syndrome actually is if you have further questions
or comments about this video about this device or questions about dry eye
disease definitely leave a comment in the section below
your experiences either with the new lids device or other treatments that
you've done at home for your dry eyes what has been
successful what has not been i'd love to hear from you guys otherwise
i hope you enjoyed this video and i hope that if you try the new
device you have just as much success as i've been having thanks again for
watching keep an eye on it and we'll talk to you
soon
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