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Dry eye clinic · Cheadle · for Stockport, Didsbury, Bramhall and Wilmslow

Dry eye clinic in Cheadle.

Drops mask the symptom. We treat the cause.

You’ve tried the drops, the warm flannel, the lid wipes. Your eyes still feel gritty, tired and blurry. It isn’t you. Nobody has looked at the cause.

In one 45-minute visit we photograph the oil glands inside your eyelids, show you exactly what’s wrong, and hand you a written plan with every option and price. Then you decide.

Since 2017 · Led by optometrist Sohail Khan, who has dry eye himself · IPL here in Cheadle

Book EyeRelief · £900Not sure? Free 10-minute call

Do I need an assessment first? No. Every treatment starts with a free consultation with your optometrist, here in Cheadle or on the phone. EyeRelief is the one our optometrists recommend most.

Tap Book to see the next free times at your practice · See all treatments and prices

Dry eye, explained

Most dry eye is blocked oil glands. Drops can’t reach them.

Your tears need a thin layer of oil from tiny glands in your eyelids. When those glands block, your tears dry in seconds: gritty, burning, tired eyes that water. Drops add water for a few minutes. Clearing the glands is what lasts, and that’s what we do here in Cheadle.

The full guide: symptoms, causes, why drops don’t last, and every treatment →

Our treatment programmes

Three programmes. Pick the one that matches how bad it is.

Built by us since 2017, from the latest research. Your assessment confirms which one fits.

Mild, fairly recent. Gritty eyes or crusty lashesEyeCleanA first step · 3 visits£480
Mild to severe. Burning, red lids, keeps coming back, drops don’t helpEyeRelief (IPL)Most people start hereAbout 3 months£900
Severe or long-standing. Needs care over a longer timeEyeRelief Max (IPL)About 6 months£1,495

Why most people choose EyeRelief

EyeClean clears your blocked glands. EyeRelief does that too, and treats why they keep blocking. Each visit, in one chair:

  1. IPL (intense pulsed light) melts the oil deep in the glands and calms the inflamed vessels along the lid
  2. Low-level light therapy (LLLT), a red light mask that calms inflammation in the lids, helps the glands regenerate and warms them slightly
  3. Blephasteam warm steam goggles soften what’s left
  4. Every gland cleared by hand (gland expression)

A good first step for mild dry eye: gritty or tired eyes and crusty lashes that haven’t been going on for long.

The EyeClean Programme

3 visits, about 30 minutes each

  • Each visit: Blephasteam warm steam goggles soften the hardened oil, your optometrist clears every gland by hand, then a BlephEx deep clean of your lid edges
  • Home kit to keep it going between visits
  • Follow-up: your tests repeated, so you see the change in numbers
  • Add red light at every visit: +£95

£480

or £240 today and £240 at your next visit

Book EyeClean

Book it straight in. Your first visit starts with a free consultation with your optometrist, and if it isn’t right for you, we tell you before anything starts.

Most recommended

For mild to severe dry eye: burning, red lids, eyes that keep going back to how they were, drops that don’t help.

EyeRelief (IPL)

About 3 months

  • 4 IPL visits, two weeks apart, about 75 minutes each
  • Each visit: IPL, then red light therapy (LLLT), then Blephasteam warm steam goggles, then every gland cleared by hand
  • Plus one full EyeClean visit and a home kit
  • Follow-up at the end of treatment

IPL is at Cheadle and Middleton. Heald Green, Winsford and Heckmondwike assess you and book your IPL for you.

£900

or £450 today and £450 at your next visit

Tap Book to see the next free times at your practice

Book EyeRelief

Your first visit starts with a free consultation with your optometrist, and if it isn’t right for you, we tell you before anything starts.

Do I need an assessment first? No. Your first visit starts with a free consultation. Glands that stay blocked shrink, and they don’t grow back, so there’s no reason to wait.

Not sure what you have? Start with the assessment (£225)

For severe or long-standing dry eye that needs care over a longer time, including blepharitis, mites and rosacea.

EyeRelief Max (IPL)

About 6 months

  • 5 IPL visits: IPL, red light therapy (LLLT), Blephasteam and every gland cleared by hand, plus blue light when your optometrist decides it’s needed for bacteria and mites
  • 4 EyeClean visits, one a month, lid edges cleaned each time
  • Home kit and a follow-up at six months

£1,495

or £747 today and £748 at your next visit

Book EyeRelief Max

Your first visit starts with a free consultation with your optometrist, and if it isn’t right for you, we tell you before anything starts.

Or start with the assessment (£225) · talk to an optometrist first

£50 of your assessment comes off whichever programme you choose. As we go, your optometrist may change the mix in your favour, never at extra cost.

Other treatments, if your plan needs them

Your optometrist adds these when your assessment shows they’ll help.

Not enough tears: punctal plugs or LacrifillTiny plugs or a gel slow the drainage, so your own tears stay on the eye for longer. Added once your lids are calm. At all five practices.Plugs £320 a pair · Lacrifill £520
A damaged eye surface: amniotic membrane lensA soft lens made from natural healing tissue, worn for a few days to help the surface heal.£950
Watery eyes: lacrimal syringingA gentle rinse of the tear drainage channel, to check it’s open and flowing.Ask us
Drops and home careThe right drops for your type, a heat mask, lid wipes and a routine that fits your day.Home Plan kit £65
Prescription drops or an eye doctorWe don’t prescribe ourselves. If you need a prescription drop, we write to your GP with your results. If you need an ophthalmologist, for example for Sjögren’s, we refer you.Part of your assessment
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Full price list

Getting started

Free 10-minute callTalk to an optometrist before you book anything.
Free
Essential Dry Eye Assessment, 45 minutesThe complete picture: your tears, eye surface, lashes and lids, every oil gland photographed with infrared, and an inflammation test. You leave with a written plan.
£225
£50 towards your treatmentFrom your assessment fee, if you go ahead now or later.
−£50

Treatment programmes

EyeClean Programme3 EyeClean visits, home kit and follow-up. For mild dry eye and blepharitis.
£480
EyeRelief Programme (most recommended)4 IPL visits with red light and gland clearing, 1 EyeClean, home kit and follow-up. For moderate dry eye, blocked glands and red lids.
£900
EyeRelief Max Programme5 IPL visits with red light (and blue light when needed), 4 EyeClean visits one a month, home kit and a 6-month follow-up. For severe or long-standing dry eye, blepharitis, mites or rosacea.
£1,495
Add red light to EyeCleanLow-level red light at every EyeClean visit, to calm inflammation, help the glands regenerate and warm them slightly.
+£95
Add red and blue light to EyeCleanAlso treats the bacteria and mites of blepharitis.
+£180

Single sessions

EyeClean sessionWarm mask, BlephEx lid clean and every gland cleared. A top-up after a programme.
£195
IPL sessionOne IPL visit with red light and gland clearing. Cheadle and Middleton.
£295
Red and blue light sessionOne visit: low-level red light to calm inflammation and help the glands regenerate, then blue light for the bacteria and mites of blepharitis. About 30 minutes.
£95

Not enough tears, or a damaged eye surface

Lacrifill gel, both eyesSlows tear drainage so your own tears stay on the eye longer.
£520
Punctal plugs, a pairTiny plugs in the tear drains, for the same reason.
£320
Amniotic membrane contact lensNatural healing tissue, worn for a few days to help a damaged surface heal.
£950

At home and afterwards

Home Plan kitHeat mask, lid wipes and the drops that suit your type.
£65
Yearly re-assessment, 45 minutesChecks your eyes are staying well, and catches any change early.
£195

Pay in full, or half today and half at your next visit. Lacrifill and plugs are added to a treatment once your lids are calm.

Not sure which? Book the assessment (£225)Ask an optometrist. We’ll call you

Reviews

What people in Cheadle say

4.9 ★★★★★ from 106 Google reviews of the Cheadle practice. Read them on Google

“Great service with really friendly and helpful staff.”

Josh · Google review · October 2021

“Forget the big multiples with impersonal service and hidden extras, Ashworths Opticians in Cheadle gave me an excellent selection of frames and expert advice on lenses, all at competitive prices. Wouldn’t hesitate to return.”

Rob Ainscough · Google review · October 2021

“I’ve used Ashworths for years as my opticians.They have always given me prompt reliable service at s reasonable price.”

Mike Andrew · Google review · October 2021

Book

Choose your nearest practice.

Book online any time, or call us Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. Outside those hours, the number offers to ring you back when we open.

Sudden or severe symptoms? Don’t wait for a dry eye appointment.
Severe eye pain, sudden loss of vision, a chemical in your eye or an injury needs help today. Call your nearest practice or see our urgent eye care page. Out of hours, call NHS 111, or go to A&E.
Getting here

Where our dry eye patients travel from

We’re at 19 Wilmslow Road, Cheadle, with free parking on Wilmslow Road and behind the practice. A short drive from the A34, and the 11, 11A and 130 buses stop outside.

CheadleOn the doorstep. Ashworth Opticians was the name over the door for decades; when Ian retired we took it on, and many of the dry eye patients we see now were his patients first.
Cheadle HulmeFive minutes down the A5149. The largest number of our dry eye patients after Cheadle itself.
Gatley and Heald GreenFive minutes. Our Heald Green practice on Finney Lane does the assessment and first treatment too — book whichever is easier; the imaging is sharper here.
BramhallEight minutes via Bramhall Lane. A lot of retired Bramhall patients who’d been told dry eye was “just age”.
StockportTen minutes. If you’re on the list at Stepping Hill for your eyes, we can see you meanwhile and write to them.
Adswood, Davenport and EdgeleyTen minutes.
Didsbury and NorthendenTen minutes up the A34 or over Kingsway. For most of Didsbury we’re the nearest gland imaging.
Wilmslow and HandforthFifteen minutes. Handforth is closer to us than to Wilmslow’s own opticians for most of the estate.
Hazel GroveFifteen minutes.
Sale and AltrinchamTwenty minutes along the M60. Worth it for the imaging; tell us you’re travelling and we’ll try to do assessment and first treatment in one visit.
Here in Cheadle

The equipment, and where it is

HD Firefly digital slit lamp · Here in CheadleHD Firefly digital slit lamp · Here in CheadleOphthalmology-grade microscope with a built-in HD camera and infrared meibography — the sharpest gland picture in the group. Your glands on a 24-inch screen, and the recording kept for your next visit.
Eye-light — IPL and red light · Here in CheadleEye-light — IPL and red light · Here in CheadleThe handpiece delivers the IPL flashes across the cheek and lower lid; the mask delivers the red light to the gland tissue. Fifteen minutes, no gel, nothing touches the eye.
Gland imaging here in Cheadle · Abra & Co — CheadleGland imaging here in Cheadle · Abra & Co — CheadleHD Firefly meibography at every visit: we photograph the glands, map the tear film and keep the images for your next visit, here on 19 Wilmslow Road.
Learn about dry eye

Want to understand it first?

Plain guides written by our optometrists: what is going on, what you can do yourself, and when you need us.

All our dry eye guides, in order →

Questions

Dry eye in Cheadle: your questions

Do you do IPL in Cheadle?

Yes. IPL, red light therapy, EyeClean, punctal plugs and Lacrifill are all done here on Wilmslow Road. Your first visit starts with a free consultation with your optometrist.

I’m under Stepping Hill or the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Can I still come?

Yes, and tell us who you’re under so we can write to them. Many patients use us while they wait, and some are discharged back to us for ongoing care.

What is the HD Firefly?

An ophthalmology-grade digital slit lamp that records your eyelids in high definition. We show you your own oil glands on a large screen and point to exactly where the blockages are. Cheadle is the only practice in our group with it.

Where do I park?

Free parking on Wilmslow Road and behind the practice at 19 Wilmslow Road, SK8 1DW. The 11, 11A and 130 buses stop outside, and it’s a short drive from the A34.

Do I need a referral?

No. Book online or call us on 0161 428 3717. No GP referral needed.

Is dry eye treatment on the NHS?

No. An NHS sight test covers your vision and eye health, not gland imaging or dry eye treatment. Every price is shown before you decide.

More questions about dry eye →

Comfortable eyes, without living on drops.

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