What to do if your eyes become dry and blurry during menopause

Women generally enter menopause around the age of 50. With the changes in female hormones in the body, many uncomfortable symptoms will appear, and blurred vision may occur around the eyes. This is mainly caused by the following reasons, and the solutions are different. Because it is difficult for patients to identify the actual cause based on their own symptoms, they should go to the hospital's ophthalmology department for a preoperative examination to diagnose the actual cause and provide targeted treatment. Let's take a look at what women should do when they have dry, astringent and blurred eyes during menopause.

What should women do when their eyes become dry, astringent, and blurred during menopause?

Causes of dry eyes: After entering menopause, along with the changes in female hormones in the body, the function of the tear film glands around the eyes will be affected, resulting in insufficient tear film metabolism and reduced quality, resulting in dry eyes and sore eyes. Due to the unhealthy tear film function caused by corneal diseases, it will cause slight vision loss and blurred vision. At this time, you can use artificial tear eye drops to relieve symptoms, such as sodium hyaluronate eye drops, polyethylene glycol eye drops, etc.

Caused by eye fatigue: After the age of 40, with the decline of the adjustment function of the ciliary body of the eyes, symptoms of dizziness will gradually appear. At this time, eye fatigue will appear, especially when looking at close objects or mobile phones, computers, etc., the symptoms of eye fatigue will be more obvious. The specific manifestations are bloodshot, dry, sore eyes, blurred vision, unwillingness to open the eyes, etc. More serious patients may also experience headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, etc. In treatment, attention should be paid to effective use of the eyes, reasonable arrangement of time, avoid long-term close-up use of the eyes, and Stullen eye drops can be used to eliminate fatigue symptoms.

Causes of cataracts: When people reach around 50 years old, the lens of the eye has already begun to deteriorate, which can easily lead to lens opacity, decreased clarity and cataracts. This deterioration may be exacerbated especially when women experience hormonal changes during menopause. Mild cataracts can be treated with cataract eye drops to slow down the progression. If the cataract is more serious and the vision loss affects normal daily life and work, surgical treatment should be considered.