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Next Gen NYC star Emira D’Spain explained that when her dry eyes caused small tears in her cornea, her doctor recommended the “craziest” treatment
The treatment, she said, was “like a giant contact” that’s worn on the eye, and is made from amniotic membrane, the tissue closest to the baby
D’Spain shared she “could not be happier” with the treatment, which she said didn’t hurt and was merely “uncomfortable”
Next Gen NYC star Emira D’Spain shared the innovative treatment she used for her dry eyes — which caused microscopic tears in her cornea — explaining, “I had placenta put in my eye and it was the best thing I’ve ever done.”
“I have struggled with dry eye for the longest time ever,” D’Spain, 28, said in a voiceover for a video shared to her Instagram on July 30. “My dry eye was so bad, it created these microtears in the bottom of my eye.”
Dry eye is a common, but painful condition, caused when the eyes either don’t produce enough tears, or produce tears of “poor” quality, the Mayo Clinic explains. It can lead to inflammation, or damage to the eye’s surface.
The Bravo star said her doctor suggested the treatment Prokera. It’s a medical device approved by the FDA and made with donated amniotic membrane — the part of placenta that is closest to the baby — to heal damaged corneas without scarring or inflammation.
As D’Spain said, it’s “amniotic tissue that restores your eye to its optimal health. It doesn’t hurt or anything. It just feels really uncomfortable, so it’s kind of like a giant contact that you wear for a couple days.”
In D’Spain’s case, she wore one in each eye for 24 hours, and her eye was tapped shut while it was treated. “I get to wear my little glam pirate patch,” she said, showing off a pink bedazzled eyepatch. Overall, she explains, “it was not that bad. It just felt like there was something in my eye because there literally was.”
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Emira D’Spain shared how she used a placenta treatment to treat her eyes.
“I was still out and about running errands, doing my thing. I will say it is very disorienting to only operate with one eye. I kept, like, bumping into things,” she said, sharing that soon her eye looked “so much brighter and whiter and just, like, more healthy.”
“Apparently a lot of celebrities do this to get their eyes super white,” she said, saying she “could not be happier with how they turned out. This has to be my craziest beauty secret ever.”
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