Key takeaways:
- Treatment with ocular lubricants reduced Headache Impact Test scores in adults with migraine and dry eye disease.
- No significant difference in effect was observed between the two ocular lubricants.
Adults with dry eye disease and migraine who were treated with eye drops for ocular lubrication experienced significant reductions in migraine severity, according to a study published in Optometry and Vision Science.
“Migraine is known to be associated with variable comorbidities such as cardiovascular, psychiatric, neurologic and nonmigraine pain conditions, including dry eye disease,” Nur Amalina Md Isa, MOptom, a PhD candidate at the School of Optometry and Vision Science at UNSW Sydney, told Healio.
Md Isa and colleagues hypothesized that treating dry eye and reducing neuroinflammation and stress stimulus to corneal nerves may reduce migraine severity.
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Source: Healio