Prevent Blindness features a number of social media graphics, which are free to use.

  
NEW YORK—Prevent Blindness announced at the beginning of July that it is joining in support of July as Dry Eye Awareness Month, with the goal of educating the public and health care professionals about dry eye disease. For the fourth consecutive year, OCuSOFT Inc., a privately held eye and skin care company specializing in eyelid hygiene and ocular health, is partnering with Prevent Blindness in support of Dry Eye Awareness Month. The National Eye Institute estimates that dry eye affects nearly 16 million Americas, as reported in VMAIL; in recognition of this, Prevent Blindness is offering a number of resources to help ECPs make the most out of educating their patients on dry eye this July.

These resources include fact sheets and shareable social media graphics available in English and Spanish, as well as a dedicated resource page. Prevent Blindness also offers two Focus on Eye Health Expert Series episodes, including “Dry Eye and Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD),” featuring April Jasper, OD, FAAO, Advanced Eyecare Specialists, and “Dry Eye,” with Stephanie Jones Marioneaux, MD.

New this year, Prevent Blindness also offers materials on the proper way to take eye drops, including a printable one-sheet infographic, a new video, “How to Use Eye Drops,” featuring Yara Catoira-Boyle, MD, of Visionary Eye Specialists, and a dedicated web page.

Take a look at Prevent Blindness’ free resources, as well as some social media posts from ECPs themselves, and get some inspiration for your own plan for Dry Eye Awareness Month.

Prevent Blindness offers a free downloadable fact sheet to help patients use eye drops for dry eye.


Lillie Mosaddegh, MD, of Mosaddegh Dry Eye Center of Excellence in San Francisco, shared some dry eye symptoms that patients should look out for. Image via mosaddegh_eye_institute on Instagram


Melissa Dugan, OD, of Lakefront Eyecare in New Orleans, announced during Dry Eye Awareness Month that her practice now offers IPL (intense pulsed light) treatments. Image via lakefront_eyecare on Instagram