Nicole Bajic, MD

Dry eye symptoms are often mischaracterized or overlooked due to low awareness, delaying diagnosis and treatment and hurting quality of life.

With inflammation being the cause of dry eye in many cases, future treatment will likely target this aspect of dry eye.

Making sure that glands around the eyes are not blocked by poor hygiene is a vital step in mitigating symptoms of dry eye.

Because patients do not always associate their symptoms with dry eye, they often turn to treatments that do not work, says Nicole Bajic, MD.

Risk factors can vary for dry eye, a condition that affects the layers of tear film on the eye, says Nicole Bajic, MD.