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Deekite1941 Newbie
Deekite1941
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Hi all

was just diagnosis with Sjorgens. I also have Celiac disease. I also have extremely red dry eyes. Any advice or helpful tips?

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Welcome!  

Whike I do have celiac disease, I do not have Sjögrens.  Here is a link to a previous post:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/114292-sjogrens-and-celiac/?tab=comments#comment-958011

You can find more postings (about 900)  by using the search box.  There are many tips, you just have to search.  

I suffer from Ocular Rosacea.  I use eye drops “Natural Tears” to combat my dye irritated eyes.  

I hope this helps!  

Deekite1941 Newbie
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7 hours ago, cyclinglady said:

Welcome!  

Whike I do have celiac disease, I do not have Sjögrens.  Here is a link to a previous post:

https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/114292-sjogrens-and-celiac/?tab=comments#comment-958011

You can find more postings (about 900)  by using the search box.  There are many tips, you just have to search.  

I suffer from Ocular Rosacea.  I use eye drops “Natural Tears” to combat my dye irritated eyes.  

I hope this helps!  

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On 3/26/2019 at 10:03 AM, Deekite1941 said:

Hi all

was just diagnosis with Sjorgens. I also have Celiac disease. I also have extremely red dry eyes. Any advice or helpful tips?

Deekite,

Have your doctor check your Vitamin D levels ... they (low Vitamin D levels) can contribute to your dry eye symptom's.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-vitamin-d-linked-eye-syndromes.html

I recently found out  I had low Vitamin D again ...but I noticed my dry (grainy) eyes first .. .and was quite surprised my Vitamin D was low again but now I know it (dry eyes) was a way my body was telling me my body was low in Vitamin D again.

Also look into Pellagra .... the poor nutrition common in Celiac's can trigger it as 2ndary condition.

Here is a s study of it (Pellagra) presenting in Primary Sjorgen's.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4069716/

I hope this is helpful but it is not medical advice.

2 Timothy 2: 7 “Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things” this included.

Posterboy by the grace of God,

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