The Correlation Between Signs And Symptoms In The Dry Patient.

A very common complaint among an elderly population of patients is that of a dry feeling eye. Patients use many descriptive terms in an effort to explain the feeling of their eyes. These adjectives have previously been lumped together into one group to describe the various forms of the dry eye. The basic premise of this study was to determine if there was any diagnostic significance to the different descriptive terms used by patients to describe the feeling of their eyes. That is to say, are there specific descriptive terms used to describe specific causes of the dry eye condition.