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Hello, I am 49 year old female. I am feeling itchy and dry eye. I feel heavy ness in eyes. I am diabetes. What should I do?
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Diabetes and some of its medications) can cause dry eye. Try using some simple artificial tears (lubricants) such as zyaqua or osmodrops or tearmist eye drops. Yous hould also be using spectacles, if not do get a checkup and also get screened for diabetic retinopathy, a condition of retina which usually affects diabetic patients at some stage.
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