My dry eyes were driving me crazy until I found this amazing device

I have been living with stinging, dry eyes for years.If you’re like me and stare at glowing screens all day, you probably know exactly what I am talking about.

And it doesn’t help when the air outside is like puffing on ten cigarettes at the same time.When I discovered the Heated Eye Wand by Peep Club, I was intrigued.After having used it for a month, I’m convinced.

This is the treatment I have been in search of for years.My eye troubles go back all the way to the beginning.I was prescribed glasses in third grade, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I was wearing contacts daily.

For decades, I completely neglected my eye health.By the time I hit middle age, contacts were becoming too painful to wear for more than a few hours at a time.Then, sitting in my optometrist’s chair, she told me I was suffering from something called Meibomian Gland Dysfunction.

Also known as MGD, it is basically a chronic condition where the tiny, crucial oil glands inside your eyelids get blocked up with accumulated years of gunk.Without that essential oil, your tears just evaporate immediately, leaving you with dry, burning, aggressively twitching peepers.The doctor told me to use a hot compress for thirty minutes every night before bedtime, but who has thirty spare minutes to lie completely motionless, eyes covered with a dripping washcloth plastered to their face? It’s a lot to ask, even for something I so obviously needed.The damp cloth would get cold and clammy after about three minutes.

The whole wetness factor was just messy, inconvenient and completely unsustainable.Unsurprisingly, I couldn’t keep to the routine.

I threw in the towel — or threw out the towel, I guess. I had almost resigned myself to twitching eyelids and perpetually itchy eyes when I was offered an interview with Nicola Alexander-Cross, an optometrist and beauty-tech entrepreneur, at a cafe in the heart of Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron district.Over coffee, she explained her journey from m...