Dry Eyes Clinic

17/04/2026

With allergy season is coming up, more people will be being misdiagnosed with dry eyes when they actually have allergic eye disease, or the other way around.

  Dry Eye or Allergic Eye Disease Dry eye and allergic eye disease are easy to confuse because they have similar symptoms. Both can cause redness, irritation and a gritty or foreign body sensation. However, there are some important differences. Typical dry eye symptoms include dryness, burning and ...

18/11/2024

If you suffer from dry eye and/or ocular neuropathic pain, hypnosis might be helpful for you. Visit a hypnotherapist and learn how to do self-hypnosis to manage your pain levels.

Hypnosis for pain management. Learn more about the benefits of hypnosis for pain relief. Find a hypnotherapist.

13/11/2024

Good news for all the teachers who have struggled to get to appointments at our clinic.

Starting December, we will be doing a later clinic on Wednesdays and Thursdays, finishing at 6pm.

06/06/2024

Did you know that at the Dry Eyes Clinic, we use the Optilight - the newest and best IPL technology - to treat your dry eyes (among other treatments).

Once IPL has been identified as appropriate at your initial consultation, you'll have an initial course of four sessions, followed by six-monthly maintenance treatments.

Every session is performed by Mr Yodaiken himself and accompanied by meibomian gland expression and a mini review. Upper lids are treated as well for maximum benefit.

Best of all, we've reviewed our pricing and are delighted to say that maintenance IPL sessions and review will no longer be subject to a consultation fee - you'll get a full review included in the IPL cost.
That should brighten some eyes! 🤩

Watch the official OptiLight product video and learn how OptiLight with the patented OPT technology can elevate your practice. To learn more visit: Lumenis.c...

31/05/2024

A frequent early sign of meibomian gland dysfunction is a chalazion.

Chalazions are reddened lumps on your eyelid that are a complication of meibomian gland dysfunction. Find out more and how to treat them.

31/05/2024

Teddy wears his Wizard Labs dry eye mask every day and couldn't be happier. Just like our patients who have already purchased this product.

How about you?

Wizard Eye Masks are now back in stock. Get yours today by calling 03333 444 977 or search Wizard eye mask on eBay.

21/02/2024

We've had a few enquiries about serum tears this week. Autologous serum tears are eye drops made from your own blood serum. They have been shown to help dry eye symptoms and improve the health of the eye surface. You have blood drawn at one of the national centres and the drops are created for you. There is a waiting list and production also takes time, so expect it to be a few months until the serum tears are available.

As they are only produced by the NHS Blood & Transplant service, the easiest way to get them is by prescription from an NHS Ophthalmologist. You can get them privately from NHSBT too, but the process is no faster and it costs £1477 + VAT every three months.

While waiting, an alternative is fingerprick autologous blood (FAB), which studies have found to be equally effective. With this method, you prick your (cleaned) finger and apply a drop of blood to the lower fornix of the affected eye several times a day.

You can read a summary of one of the studies at https://journals.lww.com/corneajrnl/abstract/2021/09000/fingerprick_autologous_blood_in_the_treatment_of.8.aspx #:~:text=Use%20of%20autologous%20serum%20is,a%20select%20group%20of%20patients..

24/11/2023

Aston University is studying dry eye and needs patient perspectives.

Take the dry eyes survey from Aston University to help improve clinical care of dry eyes.

19/10/2023

Expert dry eye diagnostics, cutting-edge treatments, friendly and personal care

12/10/2023

The UK's first ever dry eye charity - Dry Eye Association UK - is soon to launch with a patient education day in Birmingham on the 18th November. If you have dry eyes and/or neuropathic pain, you want to be there!

The link to register is in the comments.

22/09/2023

If your dry eye symptoms are particularly bad and treatment hasn't helped, it's possible you are actually suffering from another condition.

Dry eye sometimes has an element of neuropathic pain. Other times, neuropathic pain can be merely mimicking dry eye.

When dry eye symptoms don't accompany dry eyes. Neuropathic pain can produce or exacerbate dry eye symptoms and eye pain.

07/09/2023

After receiving a poor Google review, we sent out an email asking recent patients for reviews. We are delighted and gratified by the very positive reviews we have since seen. This is a big thank-you to those lovely people for their kind words. 🙏