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Environmental factors such as dust, allergies, smoke, dry air, wearing contact lenses or reading for extended periods of time and computer use can aggravate Dry Eye, but they are not the cause. The cause of Dry Eye is a dysfunction of the tear producing glands which results in reduced production of tears.
