Eyelid Heating Bag | MGDRx® Eyebag® for Dry Eye & Blepharitis

In both dry eye and blepharitis, the glands that secrete oily moisture to the surface of the eyes are clogged and inflamed. This is known as meibomian gland dysfunction, or MGD.

Methods to treat dry eye symptoms and blepharitis with artificial saline teardrops alone are not enough, since it is the oily layer from the meibomian glands that slows tears from evaporating too quickly.

Eyelid warming is an effective treatment for MGD. The EyeBag is a silk and cotton device filled with flax seeds which can be re-heated hundreds of times in a microwave, and was rated as much more effective than repeatedly heating a washcloth with warm water.

The MGDRx® Eyebag® is a patented medical device in the United Kingdom, and registered as a Class 1 device in the United States. 

Studies:

Ex vivo heat retention of different eyelid warming masks. Lacroix Z, Léger S, Bitton E. Contact Lens & Anterior Eye. 2015 Jun;38(3):152-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2015.01.005. Epub 2015 Feb 27.

Randomised masked clinical trial of the MGDRx EyeBag® for the treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction-related evaporative dry eye. Bilkhu PS, Naroo SA, Wolffsohn JS. Br J Ophthalmol 2014;98:1707-171

Microwave decontamination of eyelid warming devices for the treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye 39 (2016) 293-297 . Paramdeep Bilkhu, James S. Wolffsohn, Anthony Hilton, Gabrielle Matthews, Simon Legood, Liam Riley.

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