Show 1309: Coping With Dry Eyes and Tear Problems

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on our nationally syndicated radio show, learn how to cope with tear problems. This is an extremely common eye disease, but that doesn’t mean it is trivial. An estimated 16 million adults in the US suffer with dry eyes, and suffer is the right verb for many of them. What Is Dry Eye […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Have you ever had the feeling of sand in your eyes?
0:18.0	It can be incredibly uncomfortable.
0:20.0	Dry eyes can be like that.
0:22.0	This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:27.0	When tears don't work as they should to keep the surface of the eye moist and
0:38.1	lubricated the result is something ophthalmologists call karate conjunctivitis sicka.
0:44.0	The rest of us call this condition dry eye syndrome.
0:47.5	Some medications can actually cause dry eyes.
0:50.8	So can certain procedures such as cataract surgery or LASIK. What can be done to ease the
0:56.6	discomfort of dry eyes? Which eye drops your best and which should you avoid?
1:02.4	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy coping Headlines, scientists are discovering new symptoms associated with
1:20.6	long COVID.
1:22.0	Epidemiologists estimate that between 10 and 30 percent of people who experience
1:26.9	a SARS COVID-2 infection suffer with persistent problems, including impairment of the sense of smell, fatigue, shortness of breath, and muscle or joint pain.
1:38.0	Researchers in the UK analyze data from people at least 12 weeks after a COVID infection that did not require
1:45.2	hospitalization. Nearly 500,000 people were included and matched to
1:50.7	individuals who had not been infected.
1:54.0	They reported a surprising range of 62 symptoms that were much more common among those who
1:59.5	had been infected.
2:01.2	The most common were problems with the sense of smell, hair loss, sneezing, trouble
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