6 Common Causes of Dry Eye Syndrome

We’ve all experienced dry eyes in some form. Dry eyes cause a telltale burning discomfort, redness, itchiness, and tear-inducing feeling associated with staring at a computer for too long, or maybe from seasonal allergies. Either way, chronic dry eyes, or what’s known as dry eye syndrome affects a shocking 5 million Americans when eyes lack adequate lubrication (tears) and moisture on the eye’s surface.
Tear production is the natural eye lubrication that aids clear vision, banishes debris from the surface of the eye, and safeguards the eyes from infection and other health issues (i.e., conjunctivitis). Lack of natural eye lubrication and insufficient tear production is caused by several underlying health issues, including:

1. Environment
   Several external or environmental factors can contribute to dry eyes, particularly if you’re prone to seasonal allergies due to tree and plant pollens. Other factors that can trigger the dry, itchy, red, and watery symptoms of dry eyes include overexposure to dry weather, high wind, dry air, and smoke.
2. Eyelid deformities
   The structure of the eyelids play a large role in tear production. If eyelids are deformed so that they improperly close, the eyes can be prone to dehydration due to lack of tears, as well as prone to debris and infection.
3. Medications
   Dry eyes can often be an uncomfortable side effect of taking medications. For instance, decongestants, antihistamines, blood pressure medications, and even some antidepressants can impair healthy tear production and dehydrate the eyes.
4. Lifestyle elements
   Those of us who sit staring at a computer screen for multiple hours of the day, know what it’s like to experience dry eyes from lack of blinking (and eye lubrication). Same goes for those who travel in airplanes regularly, as the interior of most planes is often dry and lacking oxygen.
5. Aging
   Eye lubrication naturally declines with age, which means many individuals develop dry eyes after the age of 50. Women also tend to develop dry eyes after menopause.
6. Health conditions
   Several health conditions (or medications used to treat them) contribute to dry eyes. For instance, patients with lupus, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, and like diabetes also suffer with eye dryness.                               
   

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Research gives hope for people with facial, head deformities

A recent research substantiates that calcium plays a major role in regulating the cells that are responsible for bone growth and the finding could affect treatment for people with head and facial deformities.

Especially when the conditions is caused by too much collagen deposition, such as fibrosis and excessive scarring, as well as diseases of too little bone growth, such as Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS). 

The finding by Michael Rape and his team at the University of California, came from study of the signals that tell undifferentiated stem cells in the very early embryo to mature into bone cells.

In the craniofacial disorder TCS, for instance, the embryo does not form a structure called the neural crest, from which the jaws, inner ear and numerous other bones in the head and face develop.

As a result, people like Francis Smith, a 41-year-old researcher, who visited Rape, required dozens of surgeries during childhood to reconstruct the face, implant hearing aids and even reconstruct the trachea to breathe normally.

The researchers hope that basic research to pinpoint the key signals that trigger proper bone growth can help those like Smith avoid such painful surgeries.

One option could be the implantation of a biodegradable matrix seeded with bone cells called chondrocytes, which would then be stimulated to release collagen, the blueprint for bone growth.

The new findings suggest that stimulating collagen release with calcium would also trigger proper bone growth.

"You would basically add calcium to cells on those support structures, which is fairly easy, and motivate chondrocytes to secrete the collagen that is needed to build a bone structure on top of that support would be exciting but it is very much in the future.

Nevertheless, this might become a possibility the more we understand about how cells make their decisions," Rape said.

The finding also explained how messing with the body's calcium levels during pregnancy can cause facial deformities such as those associated with fetal alcohol syndrome.

The findings were published in the journal Cell.

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Omega-3s tied to lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Women who have diets high in omega-3 fatty acids derived from fish are less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than those who skimp on fish, new research suggests.

Researchers surveyed  women about their diets and found over the course of more than seven years, long-term consumption of more than one serving of fatty fish each week was tied to a lower risk of developing the condition.

"This study is the first to attribute the protective effect of fish against rheumatoid arthritis to its content of omega-3 fatty acids," a Dr. said.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation, deformities and disability. People with the condition also have a higher risk of heart disease, some infections, anxiety, depression and blood cancers like leukemia.

Dr. and her colleagues followed over 32,000 women born between 1914 and 1948 . Information about fish consumption was gathered from diet questionnaires sent to women in 1987 and 1997.

National registries were used to identify new diagnoses of rheumatoid arthritis between 2003 and 2010.

The researchers separated women into five groups based on the amount of fish-based omega-3 fatty acids in their diet, ranging from 0.21 grams or less per day to at least half a gram daily.

Eating 0.21 grams per day of omega-3 fatty acids equates to about one serving per week of salmon and other fatty fish, or four servings per week of lean fish such as cod.

During follow-up, 205 women developed rheumatoid arthritis, the researchers reported in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Long-term consumption of any fish at least once per week, compared to less than one weekly serving, was tied to a 29 percent lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis. However, that finding could have been due to chance, the researchers found.

Women who reported getting more than 0.21 grams of omega-3 fatty acids derived from fish per day both in 1987 and 1997 had a 52 percent decreased risk of developing the disease, compared to those who ate the least.

The researchers found a threshold effect, suggesting more omega-3s may not always be better. Below 0.35 grams per day, the risk of rheumatoid arthritis increased, but above it, the benefits seemed to taper off.

The results are consistent with other studies that have found threshold effects, and with recommendations from the  Department of Health and Human Services, which advise eating at least two servings of fish per week.

The researchers concluded that "moderate consumption of fish is sufficient to reduce risk of diseases."

Genes and lifestyle may both play a role in rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. said the top three things people can do to prevent the disease are not smoke, avoid gum disease by having good oral hygiene and improve their diet.

Omega-3 fatty acids are used by the body to make molecules that help regulate inflammation, known as eicosanoids. The current thinking is that eicosanoids derived from essential fatty acids in meat promote more inflammation than those from omega-3 fatty acids in fish, researchers said.

"This study lends credence to a strongly considered hypothesis in rheumatology circles, which is that we might be able to intervene in preventing rheumatoid arthritis in some individuals," he said.

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