Neuropathy

The Use of Cord Blood Serum (CBS) in Treating Multiple Conditions, Including Dry Eye Disease and Neuropathy/Neuropathic Eye Pain

Cord Blood Serum (CBS), also reported as Cord blood (CB) or Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB), has been used for the last 10 years as an accepted source of hematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of malignant and non-malignant hematological and immunological diseases (Ref 1-3).  Cord Blood Serum is thus a life-saving treatment option for certain cancer patients that has […]

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Best Treatments for Chronic Eye Pain and Dry Eye Disease: Is the Underlying Cause Neuropathy and/or Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, Aqueous or Mucin Deficiency?

This is a great review from a dear colleague at Bascom Palmer. The punchline is that chronic eye pain can be debilitating. It can be hard to tell what the underlying cause is but inflammation is the common cause. Patients who have chronic eye pain often also have depression, anxiety which may be due to the

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Stress and Chronic Eye Pain

A dear friend sent me this link to note the reality of how stress can trigger unwanted cascades of inflammation.  Many patients I see are under enormous amounts of stress. Why some patients can adapt while others have severe consequences likely depends on multiple factors from severity of the stress to family support to genetics

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Nerve Growth Factor helps with Corneal Neuropathy and Neuropathy from Trigeminal Neuralgia

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

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