Eye Drops?

[NW3]

Hi All.

I'm not a pilot at the moment (class 1 on Tuesday and hopefully BY later in the year!), but was just wondering if anyone had any advice in the eye drop department. Every now and again after a big night out, and if I haven't had much sleep, or wake up and watch TV etc. I find my eyes feel very "tired" until the afternoon, and are a bit blurry (I guess it feels like the rest of my body!).

Blinking and rubbing don't really do much, splashing water helps to wake up a bit, but are there any eye drops you can get that get the eyes back to normal. (I don't wear glasses, good vision etc. etc.)

Thanks in advance

NW3

[Genghis the Engineer]

I'm not sure I've got a definitive answer, but I also tend to suffer from dry/itchy eyes - usually after too long spent staring at a computer screen and not out of a cockpit.

Speak to a pharmacist about something called "artificial tears", which are a treatment for "dry eye syndrome" and can be had over the counter.

Failing that, good old "Optrex" is good stuff.

G

[mini]

After a night on the town...

Muirine, OTC.

:E

[Flyin'Dutch']

Prevention is better than cure.

So how about making those big nights a bit smaller?

;)

FD

[Notso Fantastic]

I'm not sure for the circumstances you describe that a slight blurring/difficulty focusing, is to do with a condition that eye drops/artificial tears can help. I think the root cause may be more neurological than an external factor for eyes. People with migraine headaches have trouble focusing and suffer vision difficulties. I think it may be tied in with this. Long nights/headaches/hangover/'stuffiness' from too much time on a computer- I think it more likely to be a deeper cause in the brain. What do you think?

[PPRuNe Pop]

So how about making those big nights a bit smaller?


I guess the good doctor is just about right. :ok:

[NW3]

Nights out... they always seem such a good idea at the time :)

The 'condition' is more like the kind of thing where you blink a few times and vision is back to normal, just doesn't seem to work. I guess Optrex is the trick... will have to give it a go next time!

Thanks for the advice everyone.

NW3

[flyblue]

Friend of mine, an ophtalmologist for an airline, gave me hyaluronic acid based eye drops, which she said are better than the saline based ones, which I can confirm ;)