Most dry eye care treats the symptoms. The default answer is artificial tears — often indefinitely. Drops soothe the surface for a while, but they do nothing about the underlying reason your eyes are dry. We believe patients deserve better: treatment directed at the cause, chosen on evidence, and measured over time.
Dry eye disease has real, identifiable causes — meibomian gland dysfunction, ocular surface inflammation, reduced tear production, and more. Yet most patients never get a structured, cause-directed treatment plan. They get drops, and they come back when the drops stop being enough.
There is no single approach that applies to everyone. Effective care means identifying your specific underlying condition and selecting — often combining — therapies that address it. Done right, the result is lasting improvement and less dependence on drops, instead of a lifetime of managing discomfort.
Modern, cause-directed dry eye treatment exists — but it is unevenly available, and patients have almost no way to know which of the 56+ therapies actually work for people like them. That gap is why DryEyeMonitor exists.
By collecting standardized, anonymized outcomes from real patients — effectiveness, side effects, burden, cost — and connecting patients and eye-care professionals around one shared picture of what’s working, we help every treatment decision be a little better informed than the last one.
Symptom relief matters, but it isn’t a plan. Whether the driver is gland dysfunction, inflammation, or reduced tear production, treatment should target it directly.
There is no simple approach that applies to everyone. Therapies should be selected and combined based on your concrete diagnosis — and adjusted as your data comes in.
The goal of good dry eye care is durable improvement — not a lifelong routine of artificial tears. When the cause is treated, most patients need drops less, not more.
DryEyeMonitor is built by a small team that has spent its career in ophthalmology — in the operating room, in the clinic, and in the systems that make modern eye care run.
Founder & CEO
Ludger is an ophthalmic surgeon and entrepreneur. He has founded eye clinics in Germany, Spain and Andorra, and advises companies in ophthalmology and medical IT.
Seeing how rarely dry eye patients receive structured, cause-directed treatment, he started DryEyeMonitor to make modern dry eye care — and the evidence behind it — accessible to the millions who live with the disease.
Operations
Arturo is an industrial engineer with more than a decade in ophthalmology, focused on operations and business development.
He has worked closely with refractive and intraocular surgery clinics, supporting their growth through process optimization, digital tools and strategic consulting. At DryEyeMonitor he runs operations — keeping the platform reliable for patients and clinicians alike.
Conventional dry eye care is fragmented: the patient sees one professional here, another there, and nobody holds the full picture. We connect patients and eye-care professionals through a single digital portal, following standardized protocols — so the same structured data informs every step of your care.
“Most treatments for dry eye manage the symptoms. We exist to help patients and clinicians find what treats the cause — and to measure it, patient by patient.”
— The DryEyeMonitor team
Track your symptoms and treatments, see your own trend, and add your experience to the evidence base every patient benefits from.
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