Inflamed eyelids are here to ruin the party.
The good news is that blepharitis is manageable and doesn’t permanently damage vision or anything like that, but it1. Your eyes are so crusted over in the morning you have a hard time opening them.in the morning. This happens because, as part of your normal tear function to keep your eyes lubricated, your eyes build up a mucus-based discharge overnight.
When you have blepharitis, your Meibomian glands can overproduce oil that ends up drying on your eyelashes, Ann Morrison, O.D., clinical instructor in The Ohio State University College of Optometry, tells SELF. That can result in feeling like your eyes are basically glued shut when you wake up. Even if your case isn’t that severe, you might wind up with a ton of crust accumulating on your eyelashes overnight.
In a pretty unfair catch-22, blepharitis inflammation might make you want to rub your eyes, but that typically just exacerbates eyelid flaking, Mina Massaro-Giordano, M.D., codirector of the Penn Dry Eye & Ocular Surface Center and a professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, tells SELF. “You can get into a vicious cycle,” Dr. Massaro-Giordano says.that it’s like you watched a string of back-to-back tearjerkers.
like dryness, itchiness, redness, pain, and sensitivity to light. Counterintuitively enough, dry eye can also cause excessive tearing as your eyes work to quench their thirst.Blepharitis can make your eyes feel all-around terrible. Much like the one of the potential reasons behind watery eyes, all that blepharitis-induced debris can get into your eyes and cause5. Your eyes and/or eyelids are constantly red.
Blepharitis doesn’t just mess with how your eyes feel—it can affect their coloring, too. Your eyelids can get red as part of all that inflammation, and your actual