Research shows that an eye drop recommended by a specialist is best liked. This is because a specialist can better specify dryness symptoms according to the benefit of a particular use. Every eye drop relieves symptoms, but only when the right drop is placed at the right conditions will the experience be optimal. And we all get a SMEYEL from that anyway!
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For dry eyes, highly moisturising eye drops, such as the Lacrifresh OcuDry range, are the very best choice. These products instantly replenish your natural tear fluid. They form a stable, protective layer over your entire eye. This stops burning immediately and provides long-term comfort.
Dry eyes are very often caused by external factors in your environment. Think of dry air in the car, lots of wind outside or staring at a computer screen for hours on end. You then unknowingly blink much less, causing your eyes to dry out at lightning speed. A small bottle of moisturising fluid on your desk or in your bag solves this problem immediately and effectively.
A specialist can analyse your specific dryness symptoms much better. Every eye drop does relieve symptoms slightly, but only when the right drop is placed at the right conditions is the experience truly optimal. This will prevent you from accidentally choosing an unsuitable product.
At SMEYEL , we strongly believe in this targeted approach. This is because dryness due to a lack of tear fluid requires a completely different drop than dryness due to too rapid evaporation of the tear film. By listening carefully to the advice of your optician or specialist, you can be one hundred percent sure that you are choosing the eye care that your eyes really need.
Aloe vera is not just a fleeting trend, it really adds something valuable to modern eye care. This special succulent is rightly praised worldwide for its intensely hydrating, soothing and strong healing properties. That is exactly why you will find the popular Lacrifresh Aloe drops in our range.
This supplement works instantly very soothing and softening on your cornea. It is exactly what you need when your eyes are irritated by strong winds, bright sun or a long plane trip. It helps restore the disrupted moisture balance in the eye immediately and prevents your eyes from feeling tired or very heavy mid-day. Pamper your eyes with the best nature has to offer.
Yes, you can easily combine many eye drops from our range with your contact lenses. Preferably choose mild variants without preservatives, such as Lacrifresh Aloe. These will not damage the soft material and can be dripped directly and safely into your eye.
If you wear contact lenses daily, these lenses consume moisture from your eyes to stay nice and smooth. An extra drop of liquid during a busy working day is then definitely not a luxury. You don't even have to take your lenses out for it. Within two blinks, your lenses instantly feel as if you have just put them in for the first time.
The important difference is in the exact concentration of the moisturising ingredients. OcuDry 0.20% is specially designed for mild to moderate complaints and provides very light, refreshing hydration. OcuDry 0.30% is slightly thicker and offers more intense, much longer-lasting relief for moderate to severe dryness.
It is crucial to choose the product that fits well with the severity of your irritation. If you only have occasional discomfort after reading a book, the 0.20% variant is more than enough to freshen your eyes wonderfully. However, do you have chronic complaints where your eyes constantly rub and sting? Then the more powerful 0.30% concentration is the perfect soothing solution for you.
In practice, people with sensitive eyes very often react badly to the synthetic preservatives found in standard bottles. Over time, these chemical additives can actually cause additional redness and unpleasant allergic reactions. At SMEYEL , we therefore offer plenty of safe alternatives.
Products such as Lacrifresh Moisture or the variants with aloe vera are completely non-preserved. This means you apply a very pure, pure liquid into your eye that perfectly and naturally mimics your own tear fluid. This is definitely the gentlest and safest choice for wearers who are very prone to irritation or inflammation in the eye.
Eye drops without preservatives can be used without limit as needed. So feel completely free to gently drip as soon as your eyes feel dry or tight. Drops with chemical preservatives can generally be safely applied to your eyes up to four times a day.
Before first use, of course, always read the package insert very carefully. Your eyes will definitely not get lazy from products without preservatives. Do you still suffer from persistent pain or burning despite regular drops of the right fluid? Then always make an appointment with your own eye specialist, just to be sure.
Always wash your hands very well with soap first. Bend your head back slightly and gently pull your lower eyelid down slightly. Drop one liquid drop into the resulting gutter without directly touching your eye or eyelashes. Then gently close your eye.
It is a common mistake to blink very hard immediately after dripping. Your eyelid then acts like a windshield wiper, sweeping the precious liquid directly down your cheek. After insertion, just keep your eyes relaxed closed for about thirty seconds. This way, the liquid distributes itself perfectly all over your entire cornea.
Nowadays, we all stare at computer, tablet and smartphone screens for hours every day. Because you are so incredibly focused during this staring, your brain simply forgets to blink often enough. This is a big problem because it causes the important tear film on your eye to evaporate far too quickly.
This causes that very familiar, heavy and tired feeling around your eyes at the end of the working day. A good moisturiser from our wide Avizor range tackles this particular problem very directly. Keep a small bottle in your desk drawer as standard and regularly give your eyes a fresh boost during your working day. This will keep you fresh and focused.
An opened bottle of eye drops has a very strict expiry date. Regular bottles are usually safe to use for about two to three months after breaking the seal. Some innovative bottles with a special pump system even remain perfectly sterile for up to six months.
After this stated period has passed, the important sterility simply cannot be guaranteed. Bacteria can then grow unnoticed in the watery bottle, quickly leading to a painful eye infection. Always write the date of the first opening with a black pen on the small label, so that you know exactly when to place a new order.
Of course, you want only the very best quality care for your most delicate sense. Buying your eye drops online at SMEYEL is therefore the smartest choice for healthy vision. We offer a carefully selected and specialised range of the top brand Avizor. Moreover, with us you always enjoy superior quality for a very competitive, fair online price. Because we understand very well that irritation in your eye is very annoying and disrupts your daily life considerably, we ensure as standard that orders are delivered to your home very quickly. Do you have specific questions about which product best suits your symptoms, or are you unsure about combining it with your trusted lens solution? Our expert customer service will be happy to help you with honest and professional advice. Take a look at our complete range, choose the right light and order directly online with ease.
The Avizor brand offers a very nice and diverse line of products under the name Lacrifresh. Which one exactly suits you depends entirely on the intensity of your symptoms and your specialist's advice. For a light, daily refresher with no additives, Lacrifresh Moisture is a fantastic choice. Do you have eyes that are easily irritated by sun, wind or air conditioning? Then the unique Lacrifresh Aloe with natural aloe vera offers a wonderfully soothing and softening effect. For more severe, medical dryness complaints, the Lacrifresh OcuDry range has been developed. Here you choose the 0.20% concentration for mild to moderate complaints, and the slightly thicker 0.30% variant for the more severe, persistent symptoms of dryness. Still in doubt? Then feel free to ask our specialists or your own trusted optician for advice.
Yes, in most cases, highly moisturising products such as those from Lacrifresh are excellent help against red eyes. In fact, in practice, red eyes are very often a direct signal from your body that your eyes are simply too dry or very heavily overused. The very small blood vessels in the white of your eye then swell as a natural reaction. By using a moisturising drop, you immediately restore the moisture balance. As a result, your eye's surface cools down, the swollen blood vessels slowly relax and the red colour goes away. Always be very careful with drugstore products that explicitly promise to turn your eyes snow-white in ten seconds. These unnaturally squeeze the blood vessels, which does absolutely nothing to solve the underlying problem of dryness and may even make it worse.
Aloe vera is a great, powerful additive found in many of our top products. It is definitely not a commercial gimmick, but it has strongly proven, healing properties. This particular succulent is known worldwide for its intensely hydrating and skin-repairing properties. When this natural extract is incorporated into eye drops, as in Lacrifresh Aloe, it offers very mild but highly effective soothing for your cornea. It instantly reduces burning and redness caused by external factors such as dry air on planes or strong winds while cycling. Moreover, a drop with aloe vera often feels just a little softer and more pleasant as soon as it touches your eye. It gives a natural, refreshing feeling and helps rebuild the natural moisture balance in a safe way very quickly.
If you often suffer from itchy, burning and very watery eyes in spring, you probably suffer from hay fever or another mild allergy. Basically, the moisturising products in our range already help with this quite a bit. Indeed, by dabbing generously and often, you literally flush the irritating pollen and swirling dust out of the corner of your eye. They also instantly cool down the warm, itchy feeling quite well. However, to really block the body's allergic reaction and the release of histamine, you sometimes need very specific, medical anti-allergy drops. These are often prescribed by a GP. For mild symptoms and daily refreshing and flushing during pollen season, products like Lacrifresh Moisture are definitely a very valuable and safe addition to your bag.
This is a very familiar situation and, fortunately, it is almost always down to the technique you use during insertion. This is because the space between your eyeball and eyelid can only hold an extremely small amount of fluid at a time. If you blink very hard immediately after applying the drop, you unintentionally squeeze the fluid out again immediately. It then flows down your cheek or disappears too quickly into your tear duct. The easy solution to this is to gently drop the drop into the small gutter of your lower eyelid. Then close your eye very loosely, without squeezing it shut stiffly. Keep your eye gently closed in this relaxed manner for about half a minute. This way, the hydration will perfectly and very evenly soak into your cornea.
Yes, the moisturising eye drops without harsh preservatives in our range are 100 per cent safe to use daily, and even several times a day. Because high-quality products such as Lacrifresh Moisture or OcuDry mimic your own natural tear fluid almost exactly, your body reacts very naturally to them. Your eyes don't get used to foreign chemicals unnecessarily and they also don't get at all lazy from regular drips. So you can safely use them for your daily dose of relief and comfort at the computer. There is one simple rule though: are you using a variant that does contain light preservatives to keep the bottle fresher for longer? In that particular case, limit the use to a maximum of four times a day to avoid unnecessary irritation. Always read the label carefully for this.
The way you store the vials at home is incredibly crucial for maintaining quality and important sterility. In any case, always store the bottle securely upright in a dry, cool and preferably dark place at normal room temperature. A locked drawer in your desk or a cupboard in the hallway is often ideal. We actually strongly advise against the bathroom. The constant heat and high humidity of the steaming shower will eventually damage the liquid in the small plastic bottle considerably. Moreover, always close the cap very tightly and firmly again immediately after insertion. Of course, always make sure that the dispensing nozzle of the bottle never comes into contact with your fingers, your eyelashes or the countertop to keep unwanted bacteria completely out.
The special moisturising ingredients in Lacrifresh OcuDry products, such as high-quality hyaluronic acid or specific polymers, act like very small, smart sponges in your eye. This is because these medical ingredients have the unique property of being able to bind extremely high amounts of moisture to themselves and also hold onto a surface for a very long time. As a result, the liquid droplet doesn't immediately evaporate into the air as soon as you blink for the first time. Instead, it forms a very thick, firm and incredibly comfortable layer over your entire, fragile cornea. This protective and smooth layer prevents friction between your blinking eyelid and your eyeball. As a result, your eye immediately feels silky smooth again. This concentration is especially high in the OcuDry 0.30%, so the effect lasts many times longer in cases of severe irritation.
No, it really is strictly forbidden and extremely unhygienic to share your bottle of eye drops with anyone else around you. An opened bottle is really a strictly personal hygiene product, similar to your own toothbrush. In fact, while dripping, the small plastic nozzle inevitably always comes very close to your eyes. Sometimes you even accidentally touch your eyelashes just quickly. This causes bacteria or invisible viruses from your skin to land directly on the plastic of the bottle. If your partner or colleague then picks up and uses exactly this same bottle, you transfer these nasty pathogens directly to their eye. This can rapidly lead to very nasty and highly contagious eye conditions, such as a painful conjunctivitis. So make sure everyone really always uses their own bottle.
Switching from the milder 0.20% to the stronger 0.30% concentration is wise when you find that the light refreshment no longer helps sufficiently or for long enough. If you notice with the 0.20% that your eyes feel sore or very dry again after just an hour, your tear film may still be more severely damaged than you thought. The 0.30% variant contains significantly more moisture-binding components. It is a slightly thicker liquid that adheres much better and longer to your cornea. As a result, it provides more intense, heavier relief that can be felt for hours. The disadvantage of this thicker fluid may be that you will see slightly blurred for a very short time in the first few seconds after insertion, until you have blinked properly a few times. Of course, in case of persistent and extreme dryness complaints, always consult your own contact lens specialist.
