What to eat when you have dry eyes?

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• chrisera21

  03/28/2013

  Yes, intake of certain nutrition can alleviate your dry eyes. You can take in food which is abundant in vitamin A, B, C, amino acid and lutein. Food which contains much vitamin A are animal livers, carrot, spinach, orange,fish and eggs. Only diet won't be enough to fight dry eyes. You also need other therapies like hot compress, eye exercise,and eye drops.

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• Eric quick

  03/28/2013

  If you have the dry eyes, you should better use the eye drops to moisture the eyes and make eyes feel comfortable. You could eat more food with vitamin C which will moisture your eyes to reduce the dry symptom for you. There are a lot of foods with vitamin C that you could take them into consideration. You could take a lot of fruits which are rich in vitamin C. You could eat kiwi, hawthorn, grapefruit, strawberries, oranges, lemons and so on. In addition, you could take some fresh vegetables, such as spinach, vegetable, leek, green peppers, cucumber, pakchoi, broccoli and cauliflower with fresh jujubes. There are a lot of benefits of food with vitamin C. They can enhance our immunity and strengthen our body condition. It could reduce your heart disease and stroke, accelerate wound healing to relieve asthma and prevent cold. What's more, it has the anti-aging effect. The food with vitamin C has a lot of benefits, reducing your dry eyes. You should eat the above types of food to make your whole body keep healthy.

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• clur_08

  03/28/2013

  In general, dry eyes might happen with itchy eyes, red eyes and blurred vision and so on. Dry eyes in most cases is caused by bad habit of using eyes. Such as, staying up, staring at computer for a long time and so on. So we had better improve our condition through natural ways. Taking a healthy and balanced diet can be important. First of all, you should drink enough water and keep your eyelids moist. Then you had better take more fruit and vegetables. Because they are rich in Vitamin. Vitamin A is helpful to improve your condition, and foods include beef and chicken livers, whole milk and carrots are rich in Vitamin A. Besides, Vitamin C is also necessary to eye healthy. Taking foods high in vitamin C like oranges, broccoli, strawberries, and sweet red and green bell peppers can be helpful.

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