Dry eye can be serious condition

Published July 12, 2007 4:00am ET



Blink. If you are reading this and haven?t blinked in the past minute, your eyes may be hurting.

Dry eye, a condition where the body can?t produce enough tears to keep the eye moist, is most common in women who work at computers or do a lot of reading during the day, said Dr. Esen Akpek of Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore.

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