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Living in Arizona
Single-digit humidity, constant air conditioning, seasonal dust and some of the highest UV in the country. What that does to your eyes over decades.
Living here is genuinely harder on your eyes than living almost anywhere else in the country, and the effects are cumulative rather than dramatic.
Phoenix combines several factors that each independently damage or irritate the eye: relative humidity that regularly drops into single digits, air conditioning running most of the year, monsoon dust events, and a UV index that leads the nation for much of the year.
These articles cover what that environment does over decades, why people who move here frequently develop dry eye within a year, and what genuinely protects against it. Most of the protection is unglamorous, cheap, and neglected.
Dry Eye in the Desert: Why Phoenix Is Harder on Your Eyes
Moved here and your eyes changed? The Phoenix climate attacks the tear film in four separate ways. What is happening and what actually helps.
By Dr. Mark Page
Sun, Dust and Your Eyes: An Arizona Eye Health Guide
Living here means more UV, more dust and less humidity than almost anywhere. What that does to your eyes over decades, and what genuinely protects them.
By Dr. Callie Sincennes
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