Do you wake up with burning, stuck-together eyes — only for them to feel drier and more irritated as the day goes on?
It’s not just your age. It’s not the AC, dry air, or even hours spent staring at a screen.
During surgery, a small tool holds your eyelids open and blocks the tiny oil glands in your eyelids.
The glands keep making oil, but the oil has nowhere to go. It gets thicker and builds up inside — like water behind a pinched garden hose.
And the problem doesn’t end when surgery does. The thick oil stays trapped, so your tears lose the oily layer that keeps them from drying out too fast.
The result? Burning, dryness, blurry vision, and that gritty, sandy feeling that keeps coming back even after using eye drops.