Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Ways to Relieve Dry Eye Discomfort

1 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Short Q&A-style segment from a YouTube video (Ways to Relieve Dry Eye Discomfort) by Wendie Trubow, MD, offering practical recommendations for managing dry eye. Key advice: blink more (15–20 times per minute), stay hydrated, use preservative-free artificial tears (at least 2–3 times daily), avoid preservative-heavy/toxic makeup, eat omega-3–rich foods or take supplements, and take regular breaks from devices.

Questions this video answers

15 to 20 times every minute.

At least two to three times a day.

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In addition to hormones, what are you recommending for a dry eye treatment? You know, my lifestyle changes would be blinking more. I mean we do not blink on devices and this would apply for everybody, even the youngsters. We're supposed to blink 15 to 20 times every minute. Staying hydrated is another big thing that definitely helps your tear film quality and then more of therapeutic. I'm going to say we like to recommend non preserved artificial tears. That, that's huge because and, and it being preservative free is a big one. You know, we have to all jump on that bandwagon of clearer products, so cleaner products. So preservative free tears at least two to three times a day. And I think another big one for women is makeup. You know, staying away from the preservative toxic sort of makeup products, knowing your clean ingredients, the less preservatives, they're better and you know, eating healthier. So omega rich foods is huge for dry eyes diseases. Right. So keeping with the omega 3 fatty acid foods or even taking supplements will really help with dry eye disease. But I would say nutrients, lifestyle changes and just taking breaks on your devices.