Lahat yata naka false eyelashes na,

yung friend mong girly girly,

kahit yung hindi,

yung kawork mo nasa front desk,

yung teacher mo naka high heels,

yung katapat mo sa jeep,

di ba pahaba ng pahaba yung pilikmata nila?

dati yung upper eyelashes lang yung false

Ngayon pati lower eyelashes false na din

Tapos parang matutusok ka na sa haba

Whats’s the real score on false eyelashes?

False eyelashes are made of real hair or synthetic materials like mink, plastic, or silk. The material continue to develop to be safer and lighter, longer wear. Recently, the lighter materials like minks have a more natural look, lighter and easier to maintain.

Makuha ka sa tingin

With the right length and flare, false eye lashes are made to tantalise. But you know what they say, “tiis ganda char” False eyelashes can harbor eye infections and irritation of different severity.

Eye infections

It’s better to leave them on for shorter duration, not and never longer. Syempre, we want to get our money’s worth. But is it worth the risk of infection? No, because eye care treatment and eye consultations combined will be more expensive.

What can cause eye infections?

False eyelashes are not advised to be washed daily, according to the technician, para tumagal yung dikit and lasts for weeks.

What happens to the skin if it’s not cleaned daily?

Bacterial growth, different types, will flourish, live and thrive in your eyelashes.

Parasitic growth, Demodex, will make your eyelashes their new home. Some patients without false eyelashes can have these infections what more if you don’t wash and clean your eyelids daily.

What are the eye symptoms?

Bacterial and parasitic growth can cause infections. Any infection can cause pain, irritation, itching, redness, and worse, blurring of vision.

Don’t wait for eye redness to get worse

Eyelashes can be made false, but your eyes cannot be made false. Do not run the risk of infection.

In real life at the clinic

As an eye doctor, we see more and more cases of eyelashes extension related infections. This serves as a precaution, but looking beautiful is not contraindicated. Just take responsibility and be aware.

How to avoid eye infections ?

In general

Do not share false eyelashes

Do not share contact lens

Never share contact lens

Go to a reputable eyelash technician.

Make sure to keep eyelid skin wash and clean daily.

Remove your eye makeup

What to watch out for?

If with any symptoms such as eye pain, redness, irritation, blurring if vision, unable to open eyes from pain, please see your eye doctor immediately.

Get your eyes examined

In the eye clinic your doctor will help you and guide you, on the kind of treatment you need, a general walkthrough in the clinic will be like this, https://italiaeyecentre.com/what-does-your-eye-doctor-see-in-you/

“Tearing, dry sensation, sandy feeling, redness, frequent blinking, at times blurry I panic, sometimes I get headaches, sticky eyelids, unable to open in the morning.”

As an eye doctor, I listened to the usual litany of people describing how their eyes feel, uncomfortable has different names and forms, and the most common culprit I say is dry eyes syndrome, too often underestimated but so many are affected. I like this eye disease it is so benign, a lot of cases are mild, mild enough to make you take a moment for yourself, take a break from your screen, close your eyes and momentarily have an inward awareness that you have been staring at your screen for too long, you forgot to blink. You’re stressed until your immunity is so down, eyelid infections are growing out of your tear glands that you don’t produce normal healthy tears.

When we blink our eyes, the motion is smooth, almost unthinkable, it’s a reflex. A blink reflex every 5 seconds is normal, longer than that your eyes dry especially under low humidity conditions in airconditioned rooms. Normal healthy is constantly produced and drained. Healthy production involves different glands, one that produce a watery layer, one that produce a mucoid layer and one that produce a lipid, oily layer. I can respectfully name them all but I have to stress their functions more than their names. These structures and their production are affected by hormones, stress, immune status, medications, drugs, eye surgeries, procedures, infections, dietary intake and environment condition.

Deficiency of one layer will present with symptoms unique to each patient, the longer the deficiency in tear production, the worse the symptoms will become. There are different modalities available to address each type, the key is to identify which layer is deficient, although so many cases are mixed deficiencies. If the watery or mucoid layer is more affected there are available eyedrops that can replace those components, a little harder to find than the very famous over the counter anti red eye drops, but definitely effective.

The oily layer deficiency is stepwise to address and maybe tedious for our patients. First step is cleaning the eyelids every day with an eyelid cleanser, second is eating a diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids, and then replacing natural tears with artificial tears in form of eyedrops frequently. This has been our stepwise eye treatment in the past.

Before

After

A new research and innovative device is now available, as part of eye treatment advise by eye doctors. A novel eyelid cleaning deep cleaning device helps to resurface the oily layer of the tear film, cutting short the tedious daily eyelid cleaning and frequent application of eye drops. It is innovative with thousands of micro rotations per minute, unclogging the glands producing the oily layer, removing the bacterial biofilm build up over the years and helping restore the natural tears you normally produce.

So many patients are happier with less symptoms and free of the need of frequent eye drop application. I am also happy with this device and this technology. It is cost effective and has so much symptomatic relief.

In March 2022, we celebrated Women’s Month and the Department of Foreign Affairs invited me to elucidate common eye issues faced by women. I was so honored to be invited as a guest speaker, especially speaking to the employees in this government agency who helps Filipinos experienced an equally amazing world outside the Philippines.