Is dry eye a reason that launches the boat of keratoconus ? In recent years when the pandemic ended, many new keratoconus patients sent to us by corneal specialists just had their diagnosis after the pandemic . In the Philippines, community locked down was more than a year, and kids had more than a year long of online classes . And this meant prolonged hours of non-stop classes, surfing the net, gaming and watching Netflix. Some facts: Patients with keratoconus have have lower tear volumes and more severe dry eye symptoms compared to age-matched healthy controls. The prevalence of DED after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was 44.1% which was significantly higher than the 18.7% before the COVID-19 outbreak . Eye itchiness is one of the most common symptoms of dry eyes . 3 This would then cause eye...