Graves Opthalmopathy & Dry Eyes. TheraLife Can Help

The Thyroid

The thyroid is a small gland in the front of the neck below the Adams apple.  The thyroid makes two thyroid hormones, tri-iodothyronine (T₃ ) and thyroxine (T₄ ). T₃ is made from T₄ and is the more
active hormone, directly affecting the tissues. Thyroid hormones affect virtually every tissue and cell in the body.

Thyroid hormones affect metabolism, brain development, breathing, heart and nervous system functions, body temperature, muscle strength, skin dryness, menstrual cycles, weight, and cholesterol levels. Hyperthyroidism causes many of the body’s functions to speed up.

Thyroid hormone production is regulated by another hormone called thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), which is made by the pituitary gland in the brain. When thyroid hormone levels in the blood are low, the pituitary releases more TSH. When thyroid hormone levels are high, the pituitary responds by decreasing TSH production.  This function must be perfectly balanced.

What is Graves’ ophthalmopathy?

People with hyperthyroidisum or Graves’ Disease has a condition called “ophthalmopathy”  This is an autoimmune condition where cells from the immune system attack the muscles and other tissues around the eyes , resulting in inflammation and buildup of tissues and fat behind the eye socket.  The eye balls bulge out.
The symptoms of Opthalmopathy are: Chronic Severe Dry Eyes.

• dry, gritty, and irritated eyes
• puffy eyelids
• double vision
• light sensitivity
• pressure or pain in the eyes
• trouble moving the eyes

About 25 to 30 percent of people with Graves’ disease develop mild GO, and 2 to 5 percent develop severe .¹
Opthalmopathy can occur before, at the same time as, or after other symptoms of hyperthyroidism develop and may even occur in people whose thyroid function is normal. Smoking makes Opthalmopathy worse.

What to do about Opthalmopathy?

TheraLife Eye Can Help. 
TheraLife Eye is an all natural formula that restores tear secretion glands to give you balanced sustainable tears all day long.  Your own tears.  Here is a story from one of our Graves Disease patients.

Grave’s Disease Thyroid Dry Eyes- Relief by TheraLife Autoiommune:

I am a 48 year old woman who was diagnosed with Graves Disease 5 years ago.  Graves’s disease tends to attack the thyroid gland as well as the eyes.  My eye problem started about 4 years ago with severe dryness.  I went to many doctors with NO Success!!! They only suggested I continue to put eye drops and ointments in my eyes.  This actually exacerbated my problem. I became very desperate, and then found TheraLife on the internet.  I found relief within a few weeks and have been on a dose of 2-4 pills ever since.  I DO NOT use ANY eye drops or ointments anymore. The supplements totally keep my dry eye problem under control. Once in awhile, I need to take 6-8 capsules, but after a couple of weeks, I usually can go back to about 4.  I am extremely happy and grateful for finding TheraLife.
THANK YOU THERALIFE!!!
M. S., San Antonio, Texas

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Dry Eye Syndrome from Graves Disease-Hyperthyroidism. TheraLife Can Help

Graves Disease is the most common cause of Hyperthyroidism.  The body produces too much thyroid hormone.  It is an autoimmune disorder where the body makes an antibody which mimics the thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).  This antibody attaches itself to the thyroid and makes more thyroid than the body needs.

A major issue of Graves Disease is Dry Eyes

In people with hyperthyroidism, their eyes bulge out of the eye socket.  A condition that is called Graves’ ophthalmopathy   this condition causes dry eyes because the body attacks the tissues and other tissues surrounding the eyes.  Symptoms of Graves Opthalmopathy include:

• dry, gritty, and irritated eyes
• puffy eyelids
• double vision
• light sensitivity
• pressure or pain in the eyes
• trouble moving the eyes

How TheraLife Autoimmune Can Help

 
TheraLife Eye Autoimmune is specifically formulated to restore tear secretion glands and regulates immune system.  You get balanced, sustainable tears all day long.  Get dry eye relief today.


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Dry Eyes from Graft vs Host- Relief by TheraLife Eye

What is Graft vs. Host Disease.

Graft vs. Host (GVH)happens when a person receiving Bone Marrow Transplantation - usually due to adult leukemia, started to attack his/her own cells.  The transplanted cells start to recognize the new body as being foreign and starts to reject.

GVH symptoms often include dry eyes, in both acute and chronic cases.

Here is a story from a Graft vs. Host customer who used TheraLife Eye to relief her dry eyes.

Graft  vs. Host- - no tears, eye pain – Relief from TheraLife Eye

I had a bone marrow transplant almost 4 years ago due to leukemia.   I ended up with a very bad case of graft vs. host disease where my sister's cells were attacking my soft tissue, skin, mouth and eyes.   This has left me with very dry eyes.  I virtually had no tears and could not open my eyes without a lot of pain.  The graft vs. host has since been treated but my eyes remained very dry.   I went on prescription eye drop and permanent punctal plugs, but my eyes were still dry.  I finally searched the internet and came across TheraLife and tried the TheraLife Eye Enhanced therapy along with the Fish Oil.  After about 2 months of taking the capsules, my eyes and my life became much better.  I have been faithfully taking TheraLife Eye for about 2 1/2 years now and I honestly don't know what I would do without this eye therapy.

Thank you for making such a great product.
Cheers,
V.V. Canada

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Costs of Dry Eye Treatments- TheraLIfe Can Help

New research in dry eyes includes the various alternative treatments available including acupuncture, prescription eye drops, punctal plugs, and diagnostic methodologies.

Alternative Dry Eye Treatments
 
1. Acupuncture
Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. As part of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture aims to restore and maintain health through the stimulation of specific points on the body. The procedure has been touted as a treatment for low back pain, lung cancer and Attention Deficit Disorder. Thus it seems logical to investigate if there is any benefit in dry eye disease. A team of researchers from the U.S. Army performed acupuncture on seventeen volunteers with dry eye and found "there was no significant improvement in the measured clinical indicators of dry eye after acupuncture treatment.

Diagnostics
The traditional method is to use lissamine green staining for the diagnosis of conjunctivitis. However, this dye then to dissipate over time and becomes less effective. Common protocol for sodium fluorescein staining usually entails immediate viewing after immediate instillation, but this study showed immediate viewing of lissamine green after instillation resulted in higher mean staining grades than at the two minute time point. The study concluded that a “false staining appearance occurs upon immediate instillation of lissamine green.

Economics of Dry Eye Treatment
The rising cost of prescription medications is a concern to all patients, and doctors alike, and dry eye medications are no exception. Prescirption eye drop is costly even after insurance payments to the patients. A group from Bascom Palmer retrospectively analyzed trends in dry eye medication use and expenditures from 2001 to 2006 and found the mean expenditure per patient per year increasing from $55 in 2001 to $299 by 2006 and now over $300 in 2013.. "The study found that women spent twice as much as men on dry eye medications ($244 versus $122) and that patients with greater than a high school education spent on average 2.5 times as much on dry eye medication as those with less than a high school education ($250 versus $100).

Another interesting study of dry eye economics came from Duke University where researchers studied punctual plug usage and reimbursement in Medicare patients. The group sought to determine whether changes in Medicare reimbursement for punctual plug insertion were associated with a decrease in the incidence of plug insertion. The group found that while the Medicare population-adjusted incidence of dry eye diagnosis increased by 28.5% in their study period of 2001-2008, first-time punctual plug insertion rates declined by 23.6%.⁷ The researchers also found that Medicare reimbursement for punctual plug insertion decreased 55.3% during the same time period. The authors concluded that the decline in punctual plug insertion “may be associated with the decrease in Medicare reimbursement” but in fact is more likely tied to their second reason for the reduction, “the introduction in 2003 of prescription eye drop.”

More recently, LipiFlow is now on the market to treat people with clogged meibomian glands.  The cost is not reimbursable by healthcare insurance.  It may require multiple treatments in order to keep the meibomian glands open.

Ocular Infections and Dry Eye

People with dry eye seem to have more ocular infections than the normal population. A study in Australia found the “antimicrobial effects of tear proteins decrease in hyperosmolar ( low tear viscosity) conditions leading to enhanced bacterial growth,” indicating that “people with hyperosmolar tears or dry eye will have decreased antibacterial defense at the ocular surface.”

TheraLife Eye for Chronic Dry Eye Relief:
TheraLife Eye is an all natural oral formula that treats from inside out! It is uniquely formulated to restore normal cell functions to tear secretion glands intra-cellularly for sustainable, long lasting relief. Clinically proven to work for 80% of first time users.


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New treatments for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction

Do not mis-understand these new treatment is a substiute for ongoing maintenance efforts to keep your eyes free of dry eye symptoms.  Take TheraLife Eye capsules, use hot compresses twice a day, 10 minutes each time and take at least 2000 mg/day of Omega 3 Fish Oil.
 
Majority (75%) of patients with Blepharitis also has chronic dry eye syndrome. The symptoms often feel similar. Blepharitis tends to recur, where as chronic dry eye symptoms can be treated with TheraLife Eye. Customers with Blepharitis often has rosacea on the face, nose, flaky skin, dandruff, or certain bacterial or bugs growing on the eye lashes. It is recommended that you wear no make up on the eyes.   High percentage of people who has Blepharitis also have meibomian gland dysfunction.

There are newer options to people who continue to suffer the effects of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), despite efforts with traditional therapies. MGD is reported to afflict 67.2% of people over the age of 60 in the United States. Common treatments include:

1. Hot compresses 2-3 times per day, ten minutes each.   Afterwards, gently massage your eye lids after wards.

2. Essential fatty acids – such as TheraLife Omega 3 Fish Oil (molecularly distilled for purity) or Flax seed Oil for their strong anti- inflammatory properties

3. Topical and oral antibiotics

Two newly described therapies for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction  include

o Gland Probing- using a physical probe to open meibomian glands
o Intense Pulsed Light (IPL).- LipiFlow.  Go to Lipiflow.com and select the cities you live in.  Check to see which physician's offices has this new equipment.

Gland Probing
Meibomian gland probing was proposed by Steven Maskin, MD using a 76 micron, stainless steel probe of 2- or 4 mm length to unblock glands. He presented a case series of 25 patients diagnosed with MGD.
Twenty-four of 25 patients (96%) had immediate post-probing relief, while all patients reported relief of symptoms by four months post-procedure. Twenty patients (80%) did not need re-treatment by average follow-up of 11.2 months, while the remaining five patients (20%) required re-treatment at an average of four to six months.

Intense Pulse Light (IPL)- LipiFlow

Another experimental treatment is Intense Pulsed Light (IPL), introduced by Rolando Toyos, MD. The treatment uses heat from a special flash lamp to melt the obstructions in the meibomian gland orifices.¹² When originally used in dermatology for acne and rosacea patients, IPL patients would subsequently report that their eyes felt better post treatment. In 2003, Toyos conducted a study in which 100 patients with treatment resistant MGD were treated with IPL on the lower lid on only one side. He reported that following treatment, the MGD was improved, both subjectively and clinically. Dr. Toyos claims that when the light is absorbed by the blood vessels, the heat that is generated melts the secretions and opens the glands, decreasing the inflammatory cytokines, and allows for easier expression and improvement of tear film stability. There’s also some evidence that IPL decreases parasites on the eyelash margin that can cause meibomian gland problems.

It usually takes three to four treatments over the course of four months, with maintenance treatments required every six to twelve months.

As the number of dry eye people continues to grow, more and more people turn to TheraLife for solutions.

Why TheraLife Eye?

Blepharitis tends to recur, where as chronic dry eye symptoms can be treated with TheraLife Eye. Typical signs of Blepharitis is inflamed eye lids, red eyes, tired, irritated. TheraLife Eye stimulates both the Lacrimal gland for tear secretion, and meibomian gland to secrete balanced tears that lasts all day long.

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The above article is an abstract from April issue of Optometric Management

Blepharitis & Dry Eye Treatments- TheraLife Can Help

You have been diagnosed with dry eyes, you use eye drops, warm compress, cleaning eye lids with baby shampoo, and your eyes are still red, dry, and irritable.  What else could be going on?
Red dry eyes are often caused by:

• chronic dry eye
• Conjunctivitis
• Blepharitis

Chronic Dry Eye Syndrome:
Red eyes is a typical chronic dry eye syndrome, in addition to feeling dry, tired, irritated, light sensitive, sandy gritty, and sometimes watery.

Conjunctivitis
Conjunctivitis is caused by viral or bacterial infection.  Bacterial conjunctivitis can be treated with antibiotic eye drops. Viral infections typically runs through a 14 day cycle and stop.  For ocular herpes, please consult your physician.  Acyclovir is often the treatment of choice for herpes.

Blepharitis:
Blepharitis is a recurring condition caused by inflammation of the eye lids.  Meibomian tear glands (produce tear thickness) is often involved.  Common causes include rosacea, dandruff, sometimes allergies, bacterial growth on the eye lids.  Typical recommendation is to use warm compress daily, clean eye lids with baby shampoo followed by gentle massage of both upper and lower eye lids.  Unfortunately, blepharitis tend to recur.  Eye lid hygiene is key.
Symptoms of blepharitis are very similar to red dry eyes - blurry vision, watery, red, tired, light sensitivity and often wake up with a crusting of eyelashes.

How can TheraLife Eye Help?
TheraLife Eye is effective in reducing inflammation and stimulates tear flow for chronic dry eye relief.  Often people with chronic dry eyes also have blepharitis.  Treating chronic dry eyes reduces the inflammation, and also helps to reduce the recurrence of blepharitis.  It is highly recommended that those who have blepharitis stay on TheraLife Eye long term to increase the rate of success.


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Severe Chronic Dry Eyes with Eye Ulcer- Complete Recovery with TheraLife Eye

It is known that chronic dry eyes left untreated can cause cornea damage, vision impairment and potentially blindness.  The following personal story only illustrate the fact that even for severe chronic dry eyes with eye ulcer, TheraLife Eye is able to restore tear glands to secrete balanced natural tears from your own body.

Severe dry eyes with eye ulcer. Relief by TheraLife Eye from Australia
"Over the last 21 months since we made our first purchase from TheraLife Inc, my wife has had amazing success with your “TheraLife Eye Enhanced”. No other product has come anywhere near to curing her dry eye. Before starting your recommended dosage of “TheraLife Eye Enhanced” and Omega-3 Fish Oil, her dry eye was so bad that she had a very painful ulcer in her eye. As recommended by you, she completely stopped using all other temporarily expedient, proscribed products. Although she understands that she must continue to take a maintenance dosage for the rest of her life, your “TheraLife Eye Enhanced” has completely removed all her eye discomfort and all she has to do if she detects a slight return of mild symptoms, is to temporarily increase dosage for a day or so."  R M, Australia,


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