Something that REALLY helped my dry eyes.

Floxedone · Nov 11, 2015

Thought I would share this with anyone who suffers with dry eyes.

I have been taking a mucin supplement called Sialex. It says it has
500mg of mucin in it from (sialic acid).

I had in the past year suffered from horrible dry eyes, I was using a TON of eye drops during the day, A heat pad for the eyes, ice for the eyes, and sometimes even the OVERPRICED petroleum jelly they sell for $12!!!!

Well, I had started doing a keto diet recently and I had to stop first try because my dry eyes got 20 times worse, talking tons of pain here. So I did a little research and it turns out a low carb diet can dry up mucin, stop mucin production, or even pull mucin from the eyes and throat to be recycled(so I've read).

I know this to be true because of fasts I have done in the past led to dry sore throat, dry eyes.

So I have been Ketogenic for 3 days now and my eyes are almost 100% because of the Mucin pill I have been taking. If I take it before bed I wake up with extra mucin on my eye lids and eyes that aren't dry and painful. I am sure adding in DHA/fish oil at night would also help.

Feel free to flame or troll.

Super $ingh · Nov 11, 2015

I tried fish oils and they don't help with me...even adequate hydration doesn't help much.

I have this weird thing where I sleep with my eyes not fully shut which greatly contributes to the dryness....I will have a look at this supp and c if it does anything

HAMMERTIME · Nov 11, 2015

Thanks I suffer from dry red eyes as well and use a lot of different drops and get sick of all the comments about being high and asking if I just smoked out. Definitely will look into this.

Jrock37 · Nov 12, 2015

Dry eyes

I use Resstasis twice a day and it really helps with dry eyes. Prescribed by my optometrist.

Arcus · Nov 12, 2015

Do you guys wear contact lenses? I suffer from dry red eyes and was told by my optometrist don't blink often enough to keep them moisturized. And having contact lenses only exacerbates the problem.