International Journal of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Objective: The primary purpose of this study is to open establish increased occurrence of DED in Postmenopausal woman in a second tire Government Hospital in WB, India.

Methodology: Study design: This is a cross sectional clinical study. Study place: It was conducted in outpatient department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and outpatient department of ophthalmology in T.L.J.S.G Hospital, Howrah, West Bengal. Period of study: Data collection and analysis time took over a period of 6 months. Sample size: In this study total 500 eyes were selected as a sample size. Schirmer`s test was done on selected patients without topical anaesthesia. Thus avoiding any chance of alteration in result. Whatman`s Filter Paper No. 41 was used to assess the lateral part of lower eyelid. The filter paper was removed after 5 minutes and the results were taken.

Results: *Menopause and its association with dry eye is a very common problem. In the study total 500 patients were taken among which 182 was found to have dry eye. Thus prevalence is 33.4%. *Among those 182 woman majority were found to be in age group of person above 65 years. As other factors were in exclusion criteria, so we can highlighted postmenopause as an important factor here.*Also it was noted that different individuals had different percentage of presenting symptom among which redness & grittiness are often experienced by the patients. There are various studies showing increased prevalence of dry eye in old age person. Several data suggest that gender & sex hormone play a quiet important role in this process.

Conclusion: As there is decrease in level of sex hormone after menopause it could possibly cause some physiological changes in lacrimal & meibomian glands thus affecting the mechanism of tear film production. In our study, we establish such a correlation.