Scleral Lenses have been used for years to treat patients with chronic eye pain and/or chronic dry eye. Doctors and surgeons often see that some patients do really well with Scleral Lenses while others really cannot tolerate them. Why is there this difference? Scleral Lens is on right above. It likely relates to many factors: 1. […]
Cord Blood Serum (CBS), also known as Umbilical cord blood serum (UCBS), has been a game-changer in treating chronic eye pain. We continue to be surprised on the effectiveness of CBS. While it is hard to obtain, it is worth a try to use this for eye pain that has not responded to other conventional treatments.
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Neural basis of eye surface sensationsAt a recent international eye meeting, Carlos Belmonte, MD, PhD, Alicante, Spain, gave the EuCornea Medal Lecture on the topic of “Neural basis of eye surface sensations. From dryness to pain.” Pain in and around the eye can be very frustrating to treat. This pain goes by many names: eye pain, neuropathic
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Exciting newly released study in the Journal of Ophthalmology, one of the top 3 journals in eye surgery: A group from Italy showed positive results in using Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in patients with neurotrophic keratopathy or corneal neuropathy. NK is thought to occur from trigeminal nerve damage 9ie, trigeminal neuralgia[TGN]) and loss of corneal
We saw recently a woman who has had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome since she was 20 years old. The devastation Stevens-Johnson causing in the whole body is terrible. It has destroyed her left eye completely and now destroying her other eye. She wants to work. She wants to see. But the chronic inflammation that is not controlled
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Heal Eye Pain after LASIK: Use of Cord Blood Serum (CBS) for Dry Eyes There are patients who have chronic eye pain and dryness after LASIK. This rare but potentially debilitating chronic pain syndrome is thought to be due to neurotrophic keratitis: the nerves have been severed and do not heal back to normal as
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency is related to Eye Pain: Check your vitamin B12 levels if you continue to have eye pain despite trying many dry eye treatments. I will add this to my step ladder recommendation. Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2017 Mar 15. doi: 10.1007/s00417-017-3632-y. [Epub ahead of print] Vitamin B12