Start your drops: Allergy season has arrived

As a practicing premium eye surgeon in the Midwest, there are really four seasons in the year, and spring represents the start of allergy season and when I recommend to my allergy-suffering patients to start their allergy eye drops.Ocular allergies affect millions in the U.S., as proof by the greater than 41 million bottles of over-the-counter and 4 million bottles of prescription anti-allergy ophthalmic medications consumed annually. Seventy percent to 80% of people affected by allergies report ocular symptoms, and up to 40% of the U.S. population is affected by (Read more...)

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