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Differentiating primary dry eye disease from ocular neuropathic pain: implications for symptom management.
Abstract
Eyecare practitioners' management of ocular surface disease is essential in managing increasing dry eye disease (DED) presentations including ocular neuropathic pain (ONP). Topical Proxymetacaine offers a simple, readily available and practical method of detecting ONP in practice and can be used to differentiate ONP from DED by eyecare practitioners, when accompanied with an anterior segment examination.