Symptoms of dry eyes

1- Grittiness sensation and burning eyes that worsening during the day and in hot climate

2- Foreign body sensation or feeling of sands in your eyes

3- Blurred vision which is transient and increase at the end of the day or with tasks that need visual focusing like using computer or reading

4- Sensitivity to light which is called photophobia. Once the patient is out in day light, he will be sensitive to sunlight and start to tear

5- Itchy eye

6- Red eye

7- Tearing.It is confusing somehow. How patient with dry eye will have excessive tearing and he still have dry eye. Dry eyes means that cornea is not covered enough with tears and due to neurological reflex, there will be secretion of tears from lacrimal gland to overcome corneal dryness. Tearing will occur mainly in conditions with eye irritation like exposure to sunlight, hot climate and winds

8- Stringy discharge especially if it is associated with blepharitis