{"id":669,"date":"2013-09-30T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=669"},"modified":"2013-09-30T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T09:25:11","slug":"castor-oil-in-artificial-tear-reduces-evaporation-helps-dry-eye-sufferers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/09\/castor-oil-in-artificial-tear-reduces-evaporation-helps-dry-eye-sufferers\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor Oil in Artificial Tear Reduces Evaporation; Helps Dry Eye Sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Optometric Technology Group in London have found that an eye drop containing castor oil and demulcents was associated with a reduction in tear film evaporation rate and increase in ocular comfort.<\/p>\n<p>The castor oil was detected in the basal tear after 30 days of use and at least 3 hours after the last eye drop instillation.Researchers conducted a prospective bilateral evaluation of evaporative dry eye sufferers using Refresh Optive Advanced (Allergan) for 1 month. Results showed that\u00a0a detectable amount of castor oil in the tear samples was associated with a lower evaporation rate at 30% [low] relative humidity.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healio.com\/optometry\/cornea-external-disease\/news\/print\/primary-care-optometry-news\/%7B46c51a6a-bfc0-48e5-9c90-09a88e3070d8%7D\/study-shows-castor-oil-in-artificial-tear-decreases-evaporation-increases-comfort\">http:\/\/www.healio.com\/optometry\/cornea-external-disease\/news\/print\/primary-care-optometry-news\/%7B46c51a6a-bfc0-48e5-9c90-09a88e3070d8%7D\/study-shows-castor-oil-in-artificial-tear-decreases-evaporation-increases-comfort<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Optometric Technology Group in London have found that an eye drop containing castor oil and demulcents was associated with a reduction in tear film evaporation rate and increase in ocular comfort. The castor oil was detected in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/09\/castor-oil-in-artificial-tear-reduces-evaporation-helps-dry-eye-sufferers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,108],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-oil-research","tag-castor-oil","tag-castor-oil-for-eyes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}