Informative Speech On Tear Dysfunction Syndrome

Elaine Yanyi Cen

COM1010- Informative Speech outline

EMEB, MW 2:30 PM -3:45 PM

Dry eye or Tear dysfunction syndrome

Introduction

I. Many times patients may have itchy eyelids from a dry eye condition. So what do they do? They think they must have allergy condition. They go to local pharmacy and they grab over the counter, a tear drop that treats allergy. The problems is entire allergy eye drops are very dry to the eyes. It can actually make thing worse. So, it’s very important to see an ophthalmology to make sure are your eye dry or do you have tear dysfunction syndrome.

II. Dry eye is a multifactorial disease of the tears and ocular surface that results in symptoms of discomfort, visual disturbance, and tear film instability with potential

Patients experience irritation, burning, redness, light sensitive or itchy.

3. Some of patients may experience pain.

C. Unfortunately, a lot of people ignore the dry eye syndrome.

III. Today I would like to inform you about the 2 main causes of dry eyes.

(Transition: Let’s start with the causes of dry eye.)

Body

I. One main reason to cause dry eye is inadequate amount of tears.

A. Dry eye can develop when normal amount of tears production decreases.

1. Tear are produced by several glands in and around the eyelids.

2. Tear production tends to diminish with age, various medical conditions, or a side effect of certain medicines.

B. Dry eye can also develop when tear evaporate too quickly from the eyes.

1. Evaporative dry eye is the most command type of dry eye.

2. Environmental conditions such as wind and dry climates can affect tear volume by increasing tear evaporation.

3. Thyroid eye disease patient are easy to develop evaporative dry eye.

a. Their dryness are come from the fact of so much of their eyeballs are exposed.

b. Their eyelids pull backward.

c. Their tear are evaporating off easily.

(Transition: Now that you know dry eye can occur when the eye doesn’t produce enough tears. Let’s talk about poor quality of tears can also cause dry