This keeps tears eyedrops and medicine on your eyes for.
Dry eyes tear duct plug.
Your doctor inserts the plug into your tear duct to block the natural drainage of tears from your eye down the duct and into your nose.
Ongoing inflammation can scar or damage the tear ducts.
Some types of eye infections can occur though.
One approach to treating dry eyes is plugging the openings to the tear ducts with tiny silicone plugs punctal plugs.
Punctal plugs may help to relieve the symptoms of chronic dry itchy or burning eyes.
If you visit your eye doctor with complaints of dry eyes you will likely be informed about plugging your tear ducts or punctal occlusion.
The plugs may cause redness and swelling inflammation in the tear duct.
A punctal plug is a small device that blocks tear duct drainage.
Plugs that don t fit properly could stick out of the tear duct and rub against the surface of your eye or eyelid.
The closure conserves both your own tears and artificial tears you may have added.
Sometimes punctal plugs can irritate the tear ducts.
Punctal occlusion is a painless procedure in which the puncta small openings in the corners of the eyes through which tears drain the tear ducts are blocked.