Can dry eyes use steam eye mask?

Dry eye treatment includes two aspects: eliminating the cause and relieving the symptoms. Identifying and eliminating the cause of dry eye is the best treatment option. However, for most patients, relieving symptoms is still the main goal of treatment. There are many treatments for dry eye at this stage, including artificial tears, calf serum, intense pulsed laser, lacrimal passage embolization points, steam eye masks and anti-inflammatory treatments. Dry eye is divided into three types, water deficiency type, evaporation type and mixed type. Evaporation dry eye is mainly caused by the deterioration of meibomian gland function caused by disease. Meibomian gland dysfunction is the most common disease, because meibomian gland atrophy caused by lipid can not be excluded, causing tear film stability decline. The principle of steam eye mask is to soften meibomian gland lipid by heating and massage to discharge lipid to alleviate evaporation dry eye.