What are the symptoms of dry eye?

• Burning sensation
• Itchy eyes
• Aching sensations
• Heavy eyes
• Fatigued eyes
• Sore eyes
• Dryness sensation
• Red eyes
• Photophobia (light sensitivity)
• Blurred vision
• Another common symptom is something called a foreign body sensation — the feeling that grit or some other object or material is "in" your eye.
• And as odd as it may sound, watery eyes also can be a symptom of dry eye syndrome. This is because dryness on the eye's surface sometimes will over-stimulate production of the watery component of your tears as a protective mechanism. But this "reflex tearing" does not stay on the eye long enough to correct the underlying dry eye condition.
• In addition to these symptoms, dry eyes can cause inflammation and (sometimes permanent) damage to the surface of the eye