By Adam Lee-potter

Published: 17:45 EST, 1 September 2014 | Updated: 17:45 EST, 1 September 2014

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One morning last year, a mother at my daughter's school stopped me at the gates. 'Late night?' she tutted, surreptitiously sniffing as if checking for signs of alcohol. 'You look like you haven't slept for a week. Everything all right?'

I was incensed. I'd been teetotal for a month and had slept eight hours straight the night before - I deeply resented any suggestion of impropriety.

But at home, scrutinising myself in a mirror, I saw immediately that she had a point: my bloodshot eyes were the colour of red snooker balls. I looked like I'd been hurled through a windscreen, eyeballs first. My wife was of scant comfort: 'What's new? You've had red eyes for as long as I've known you.'

Dry eye symptoms include sore, irritated eyes and blurred vision

I had assumed for years it was just the hours spent huddled over a computer screen. But looking at them more closely, I had to accept my eyes - which had been slightly red since my early 30s - had not felt right for months. They were constantly scratchy, sore and dry.

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