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SF - 22 Apr 2006 10:25 GMT

Hi again,

I'm using a new product since thursday: tears plus from allergan. It's a
kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was very smoothing
but the good effects gradually seem to diminish and redness increased and
this morning I woke up with somewhat of a bloodshot eye. I'm not sure if I
should continue to use it.
Of course this happens on a saturday, and it's not really an emergency, so
I'll have to wait untill monday to call my gp. But perhaps any of you know
how to recognize if this kind of redness is an effect of the drops -- as
being oversensitive to one of the ingredients -- or that it's just a
coincidence and I can continue to use it?

SF

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Mike Tyner - 22 Apr 2006 12:33 GMT

> I'm using a new product since thursday: tears plus from allergan. It's a
> kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was very
> smoothing but the good effects gradually seem to diminish and redness
> increased and this morning I woke up with somewhat of a bloodshot eye.

Are you using the product in both eyes?

-MT

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SF - 22 Apr 2006 12:55 GMT

>> I'm using a new product since thursday: tears plus from allergan.
>> It's a kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was
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>
> -MT

yes, but it's hard to see what the effect is in my blind eye as that it's
always looking weird
SF

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Dick Adams - 22 Apr 2006 14:31 GMT

> I'm using a new product since thursday: tears plus from allergan. It's a
> kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was very smoothing
> but the good effects gradually seem to diminish ...

There is one called "Nature's Tears". It is pure water in a spray can for
about eight bucks per fluid ounce. It ain't cheap, but there is probably
nothing in it that could hurt your eyes. In the meantime the rich get
richer
and the poor get poorer.

--
Dicky

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SF - 22 Apr 2006 14:35 GMT

>> I'm using a new product since thursday: tears plus from allergan.
>> It's a kind of artificial tear for dry eyes. In the beginning it was
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> the rich get richer
> and the poor get poorer.

well pure water sounds good, but that's not an alternative to tears. Yes I
agree the whole thing is a waste of money, but I'm walking with an irritated
eye for a month now and it's not going away from itself. I really hoped
these drops would help :-(

SF

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Dick Adams - 22 Apr 2006 18:04 GMT

> > There is one called "Nature's Tears".

> > [ ... ]

> well pure water sounds good, but that's not an alternative to tears. Yes I
> agree the whole thing is a waste of money, but I'm walking with an irritated
> eye for a month now and it's not going away from itself. I really hoped
> these drops would help :-(

Well, actually, if there were something which replaced tears, it could only
with great dedication replace them as fast as they were originally replaced
by the system.

The various drops contain various substances which are, to some degree
at least, unlike those in the tear liquid they purport to replace. In some
cases,
the replacement "tears" might be, in themselves, irritating. Then you may
seek the services of experts who will charge you a great deal more than
eight dollars per fluid ounce for their opinions. It is, in general, like
that with
anything you put in your eye that does not belong there.

Pure distilled water probably would not hurt your eyes, other that possibly
washing sh.t stuck to the eyelids into them.

(If a person did like to atomize distilled water into his eyes, he could
probably
find a cheaper way to do it.)

--
Dicky
No MD nor OD

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