I have been using Wet Ones as recommended by Lynda79 (Clean eyes 4 times daily using 1/4 wet one) for one week
I can report the following.
Initial State:- Eye irritation/soreness/dryness including corneal ulcers, etc which I have had for over 2 months continually. Requiring washing approx 3-4 times daily with warm water, baby shampoo, eye drops etc..
When starting with the Wet Ones, I initially felt slight stinging around the rim of the eye, but this stopped after 24 hrs use.
After 3 days:- A lot of relief, maybe rinse eyes with just warm water if they felt dry.
After 7 days:- I have forgotten that I have blephoritus. Have to remind myself to clean eyes with Wet Ones.
I will continue to use the wet ones, now cutting down to 3x daily as recommended by Lynda79, and will update again next week. Hope this helps somebody, and many thanks to Lynda79 for sharing this.
Honjon
Dear Honjon,
You will do more for people trying this then I can ever do. You tried it and are getting relief.
Thank you so much for helping others to see this can be cured.
I used the WET ONES 3 times a day for a month. You can shave off time if you keep up the 3 times a day but I imagine you will be like me and just feel so much better that 2 times a day will do it for a couple of months more as not much work to do it morning and night.
Thanks again for taking the time to post your results.
Lynda79
Great news , love hearing posts like this , gives hope to us all , unless you have experienced this you don't know how painful it is .
Just a quick update on the "wet ones" treatment. Have now been trying this for 4 weeks,
week 1. 4 x daily
Week 2 3 x daily
Week 3 3 x daily
week 4 2 x daily
Since part way through week 1, I have had no problems with my eyes. No need to use eye lubrication, do not wake in the night with dried up eyes. Give this a go, it seems to work!
Lynda79, very sincere thanks for sharing this treatment.
Dear Honjon,
You are very welcome. I am so glad to hear that it is working for others besides the 2 of us.
I use drops in my eyes as this can be caused by dry eyes. When you think it is gone it may itch once or twice more like mine and I jumped on it for a day or two. Residual bacteria I think.
I was told by the Dr. to take flax for the eyes and fish oil capsules too. I use a hot (warm) washrag in the mornings too. The Dr. said that it helps to get things going.
Be careful because there is something that caused it. Mine was makeup. I am washing my hands more now too so as not to touch my eyes. Just food for thought. It can be bacterial on the soap too.
Sorry to give you more to worry about. Just don't want you to re-infect. I did when I went back to double dipping in the mascara, etc. Won't do that again. It took only a day to stop that.
Wish you the best and thank you for taking the time to let others know that this can work for some people.
Lynda79
Hi Lynda79,
It's good hearing your reviews about Wet ones and how they have helped.
I've been having Blepharitis on/off for about a month now, only recently understanding what it actually is. After reading your reviews I went and bought Wet ones about 3 days ago and have been using 4 times a day as you say.
I've only just noticed now though that the Wet ones I've got have Benzalkonium chloride and not
Benzethonium Chloride that you say yours contain. Do you think that makes any difference as they're both anti bacterial wipes?
Dear acet,
They are not the same. The Dr. mentioned the one you used (ingredient) and I told him it was Benzethonium Chloride, that is what was in the facial scrub too.
You can google both of the ingredients.
It may be the reason it has not been able to contain Blepharitis is because the other agents they have used have not had the killing power of Benzethonium Chloride. That's my guess.
There has been one person who had a bad reaction to the wipes. She has problems being allergic to many things. There is lanolin in the wipes too. My Mom was allergic to that.
I posted what helped the 2 of us to kill it. i always tell people that there is a difference in the wipes if they are ordering them on line to make sure it has Benzethonium Chloride in them.
Hope this helps you and you get relief soon.
Lynda79
Hi Lynda thanks for you reply,
Do you know any other products that might contain Benzethonium Chloride in them? Wet ones in the UK don't have that ingredient and can't seem to find anything else on the internet. I'm getting desperate now because nothing is seeming to work.
thanks
Dear acet,
Someone said they ordered it from e-bay.
I found it on drug store sites. I looked for someone who was in Australia on a drugstore site.
If you know someone in the US perhaps they could mail you some too.
Could you check with the chemist too? Someone said a chemist would order him something with it in it.
Sorry I don't have an easy answer to this one.
Hope you find it soon.
Lynda79
hi acet
hi lynda
i ve some wet ones being posted over from my sister but i have also ordered some from ebay which is only costing under 20 pounds from the us . . also have asked my chemist to source something for me and an avon rep for the face wash . i stay in ayrshire ,if you have any problems i will post some to you as i have ordered 6 tubs of wet ones ..
Hi Lynda
My daughter has this condition 3 months ago and it has reoccurred I have looked at you using wet one wipes I have purchased but it says not to use around the eyes and sore skin can you advise pls I look at her and get sooo upset
Raf
Dear raffybow,
I was told there was a Patent for a medicine with benzethonium Chloride. I looked it up. It had a methyl benzethonium chloride in it. It was put in the eye and caused no damage to the rabits or people.
I used it for almost 4 months and no damage. You can put eye drops in after rubbing on the lids.
I suggest that you google the ingredients and read up on everything.
Try the wipes on the hands too, to make sure that she is not allergic to them.
That patent is a 1966 patent US 3236730 for Blepharitis.
I tore each wipe into 8 sections so used only a little sectiion on my fingertip to rub on the eyelash area.
I hope it helps your daughter as it has a few of us so far.
Wish you relief soon.
Lynda79
Thank You - Thank You Lynda79 for your wet ones suggestion!
I am a 45 year old female in the US and have had blepharitis for over 20 years. It came on during college and it has never really gone away completely. I have used the baby shampoo/water wash & been prescribed various ointments - Tobradex (steroid ointments - with a petroleum jelly consistency). These helped a small amount but never really got it to go away completely. I gave up gluten about 2 years ago (supposed to help with inflammation) and that did improve my condition. Over time the blepharitis flared up again however.
After reading this forum - I thought why not try the wet ones suggestion? I truly wasn't that hopeful and even wondered if it would sting or possibly be bad for my eyes.
I found the Wet Ones (red package) with Benzethonium Chloride, and have been wiping my lash line morning & night with a small amount of the wet one (I tear them in strips). My eyes were not really bothered (no real watering or stinging) by the wet ones.
The result: My lash line is greatly improved to say the least. The inside of my eyes always looked red along with the ulcerated lash line. That is not the case right now. I do wear make up during the day so I am not using this technique during the middle of the day. With just wiping my lash line morning and night it seems like my eyes are almost in the normal range. I am so happy about the condition of my eyes I can't even tell you. I don't think I would have ever had this result on my own.
I have seen many many eye doctors over the years and they do not seem to have a handle on "curing or treating this."
All I know is right now I am experiencing relief and am so grateful. I hope this simple treatment can offer others relief as well. Thanks again Lynda for spreading the news on this option. I can definitely say that I would also recommend it.
God Bless!
Dear Jill,
I appreciate you getting back to me with the good news.
I was just talking to the friend today who first used the Avon Facial Scrub that was an antibacterial that got us all on the right track and told her how I was finally getting some good news from people and how that would eventually help others to give it a try.
If someone has allergic problems to fabric softners or detergents, etc. they should be careful and maybe not use this unless they research as one person had a reaction to them. She was allergic to another kind of hand wipe. She has made me do a lot of research.
One person found a Patent from 1966 that used Benzethonium Chloride in an eye treatment (in the eye) for blepharitis.
We were not the first. Just the first to realize that it needed to be on the eyelashes not in the eye.
I do go on but want to share all that I found out. The Patent is 1966 Blepharitis US 3236730. You may want to google it.
I found too, that I can never go back to suing mascara the same way. I now use one wand for both eyes but never dip into the mascara twice. Dry eyes cannot seem to take any bacteria on them. Just my findings.
Wish you well soon.
Lynda79
I am a 40 year old woman living in the US and also suffering Blepharitis, diagnosed 2 years ago. Doing the warm compresses every day, had flare ups before, cured by a week or two of Tobradex and back to normal.
BUT the last flare up hasn't been cured in five months. I have used steroid drops, antibiotic ointments, anti-inflammation drops, anti-allergy drops, antibiotic pills, all prescribed by my ophthalmologist and really nothing has taken away the redness completely, it always comes back as soon as the medicine run is over. Only my left eye is affected and my symptoms are red eye, swollen eye lids, slight itchiness, minor discharge and tearing. In desperation I found this site and want to understand what are or were the symptoms that Lynda79, jill03295 and Honjon had and how the wet ones treatment helped and how quickly you felt relief.
Another question for Lynda79, I read you posted that the doctors can't find the blepharitis anymore, are you saying that your eye oils are back to normal too? According to my doctor what causes blepharitis is the thickness of the eye oils or sebum (at least that is my case), and then abnormal bacteria growth for this reason... Any help will be greatly appreciated... Kindness, MRB
Dear MRB,
My Blepharitis didn't seem to be an oil problem. I had it for a little over 6 months. It is bacterial and can move into other areas of the eye. For example, my friend's Blepharitis moved up onto her eyelids (where you wear eyeshadow). People talk about it in the glands too.
It has to be bacterial as these wipes would not have worked. Please look up that Patent information and google Benzethonium Chloride. You will understand how it works on this and why.
If you are allergic to shampoo or detergents or any other hand wipe you may not be able to use this.
I have a friend who uses them only twice a week as has a yellow gunk on her lashes and even get stuck together. It is helping her.
You mentioined that it is abnormal bacterial growth. My personal viewpoint is why not try and see if it helps. I did this as was so desperate as my eyes were crazy itching and when a friend said it killed her Blepharitis (Avon Facial Scrub not available with Benzethonium chloride any longer) I looked for something that had that in it (on the internet). The WET ONES are not a miracle just what I found that had Benzethoniumn Chloride in it. There may be other things with it in it. I just used what I had on hand and it worked.
If you are not allergic you will know pretty quick if it is helping you or not. I felt relief each time I used it and after a week and a half I went down to 3 times a day. Other people have different responses. Honjon went down even faster then I did.
I hope this answers your questions. I was just a desperate person like everyone else.
Hope you find relief soon.
Lynda79 I am in the US too.
Hi Lynda,
Thanks for posting this helpful information. I tried using the Wet Ones wipes and ended up having the contact dermatitis issue that a couple others had. I did find an Avon scrub that contains Benzethonium Chloride (Clearskin® Pore Penetrating Invigorating Scrub).
What was your friends' Avon wash called? Is it the same one I found?
Also what was her routine for using the scrub to effectively kill the blepharitis?
Thanks!
Dear Eric,
I have found out that anyone who is allergic to some shampoos, detergents,fabric softners or fabric sheets should not try this as could be allergic to the ammonium salts or compounds that these wipes are made from. This would include Methylbenzethonium Chloride (Patent medicine), Benzethonium Chloride (Wet Ones I used and in Avon Facial Scrub), Benzalkonium Chloride (that is what is in the handwipe that Honjon used).
You could ask your Dr. if there is a medicine that kills at the cell level that could be applied at the eyelash area or the gland openings.
It is possible too that you could be allergic to lanolin, my Mom was allergic to that. But it is more likely it is the ammonium salts or compounds.
Let me know what you find out from your Dr.
Thinking about you,
Lynda79
Hi
Sorry I haven't been online for a while......hip replacement then weeks post op a fracture of the Greater Trochanter bone {sp?} doing one of their exercises.!!!!!!!
Anyway back to eyes.
I cant remember, I know sore eyes, streaming eyes were some of the things people complained about. I now have really "crusty" eyes In the morning I can hardly get them open.
During the day they are now getting very crusty........very hard scabs around them ....cant
think of any other way to describe them.....anyone had this problem?
Thank goodness I have a hospital appointment on Wed {Its Sun now}....I might get some
help this time.
I've just started using wet ones {UK} today. Being in and out of hospital I haven't managed
to do it.
Eileen
Dear Eileen,
So sorry to hear about your problems. My husband had a hip replacement and is doing good. It was rough for 6 weeks. Sorry to hear about that bone too. Can't even imagine that.
Just wanted you to know that I go to a rest home and see someone who is really old and she has this yellow gunk on her eyelashes. I finally used a wipe on her lashes as water did nothing. It melted away with the wipes.
My friend who used the Avon Facial Scrub had suff like yours too.
Hope this info helps you and hope each day is better for you in all things. I think we are in the same age group. They say this is the Golden years. They mixed it up with the dark ages. Golden was back then.
Hope to hear you are doing better. Watch only funny things on T. V. Laugh a lot as hleps to recover.
Will be thinking of you,
Lynda79