How do you deal with dry eyes?

Yes. I went to the hospital and they did a a blood draw. They had me eat before I came in. The technician then took the blood and separated the blood from the plasma and made the drops. They are put into tubes that hold about 3 drops. You need a dedicated scissors to cut the tubes and you need to use alcohol to clean both the tubes and the scissors every time to eliminate the chance of infections. The plasma is rather thick and coagulates kind of keeping your eye protected.
Hope this helps.

Ok. But that’s not what you said in your first post. You said the doctor had YOU make eye drops with your own blood, use them four times a day and keep them in the freezer. The way you presented it wasn’t possible or sanitary. Never mind the ridiculousness of you drawing your own blood and putting it in your eyes, if you keep blood in the freezer, it would be frozen, so you’d be thawing and refreezing the blood 4 times a day.

Ok. But that’s not what you said in your first post. You said the doctor had YOU make eye drops with your own blood, use them four times a day and keep them in the freezer. The way you presented it wasn’t possible or sanitary. Never mind the ridiculousness of you drawing your own blood and putting it in your eyes, if you keep blood in the freezer, it would be frozen, so you’d be thawing and refreezing the blood 4 times a day.

@christinebuchar. This sounds very odd. How did you do this?

The eye doctor had me go to the hospital and give blood. They separated the plasma from it and put that into a long tube which they cut and sealed into small one inch tubes. To keep infection at bay I need to use alcohol to swipe on the scissors and the tube. There are about 3 drops per tube. They only last an hour unfrozen. Good luck

The eye doctor had me go to the hospital and give blood. They separated the plasma from it and put that into a long tube which they cut and sealed into small one inch tubes. To keep infection at bay I need to use alcohol to swipe on the scissors and the tube. There are about 3 drops per tube. They only last an hour unfrozen. Good luck

@christinebuchar That sounds much better! How long does the effect last for your eyes?

Hi Christine,
Thanks for taking the time to post this information! I had never heard of this type of eye drop before your post. It sounds really promising!

Did your insurance pay for it? I assume it's pretty expensive.

Yesterday at physical therapy, another patient told us about a plasma treatment for her rotator cuff tear that really helped her. Her insurance did not pay for it.

If you don't mind-- what state are you in? what hospital made the drops for you?

BIG thank you!

Pubmed is filled with references to the toxicity of benzalkonium chloride to the eye. It's been well studied and well documented. This is a (probably partial) list of damage done by BAK to the eye, which I copied and pasted from a medical article:

Decreased corneal, conjunctival, trabecular meshwork, and ciliary epithelial cell survival;
Corneal epithelial cell injury;
Conjunctival goblet cell loss;
Delayed corneal wound healing;
Lymphocyte infiltration of conjunctival; epithelium and stroma;
Elevates inflammatory marker concentrations in ocular tissues;
DNA fragmentation and oxidative damage in TM cells leading to altered gene expression ;
Induction of corneal epithelial cell apoptosis .

I've attached a pdf of this specific article, however there are many supporting article. BAK is a dangerous preservative.

...thanks for providing proof and I too wonder why it is still used (well I the reason, but why not another chemical instead of BAK)... when I look back over my 79 yrs I shake my head at all the medications I used without question in those day and wonder if any of my current issues were caused by them, will never know! J.