How is Sogren Syndrome treated?

Condition analysis:
1. Treatments for Dry Eyes:
Eye drops. Available by prescription or over the counter under many brand names, these products keep eyes moist. Some drops contain preservatives that might irritate your eyes. Drops without preservatives usually don’t bother the eyes. Ointments. Ointments are thicker than eye drops. Because they moisturize and protect the eye for several hours, and may blur your vision, they are most effective during sleep. Other therapies. Other therapies such as plugging or blocking the tear ducts, anti-inflammatory medication, or surgery may be needed in more severe cases.

2. Treatments for Dry Mouth
Chewing gum and hard candy. If your salivary glands still produce some saliva, you can stimulate them to make more by chewing gum or sucking on hard candy. However, gum and candy must be sugar-free, because dry mouth makes you extremely prone to progressive dental decay (cavities).

Water. Take sips of water or another sugar-free, noncarbonated drink throughout the day to wet your mouth, especially when you are eating or talking. Note that drinking large amounts of liquid throughout the day will not make your mouth any less dry and will make you urinate more often. You should only take small sips of liquid, but not too often. If you sip liquids every few minutes, it may reduce or remove the mucus coating inside your mouth, increasing the feeling of dryness.

Lip balm. You can soothe dry, cracked lips by using oil- or petroleum-based lip balm or lipstick. If your mouth hurts, your doctor may give you medicine in a mouth rinse, ointment, or gel to apply to the sore areas to control pain and inflammation.

3. Treatments for Symptoms in Other Parts of the Body
If you have extraglandular involvement, that is, a problem that extends beyond the moisture-producing glands of your eyes and mouth, your doctor-or the appropriate specialist-may also treat those problems using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs),2 or immune-modifying drugs.

Instructions:
Use Warm Compresses to Alleviate the Pain of Sjogren’s Dry Eyes Looking for an easy and quick way to relieve the discomfort caused by dry eyes in Sjogren’s syndrome? Use a warm, moist compress over your closed eye, which
improves your tear production and increases the thickness of your tear film, moistening dry eyes.

Studies including a 2006 paper from the Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan and a 2003 study from Schepens Eye Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston demonstrate the power of a warm compress to help improve the symptoms of dry eyes.