Prepared strip containing 1.3 μl 0.5% fluorescein into left eye (group 1) or right eye (group 2), and 1.3 μl of 0.5% placed into inferior fornix of fellow eye. Schirmer's test read after 3 minutes. A TCR of 1 reflects a concentration of fluorescein of 0.5% at 3 minutes. Log TFI is the natural logarithm
| Schirmer (mm) | TCR | Log TFI | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right | left | Right | Left | Right | Left | ||||||
| Prepared strip into left eye and drop into right eye | |||||||||||
| Mean | 19.50 | 17.97 | 0.057 | 0.070 | 5.83 | 5.55 | |||||
| (SD) | (17.1) | (15.4) | (0.11) | (0.13) | (6.28) | (5.89) | |||||
| p Value | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.77 | ||||||||
| Prepared strip into right eye and drop into left eye | |||||||||||
| Mean | 12.47 | 13.67 | 0.091 | 0.090 | 4.94 | 5.02 | |||||
| (SD) | (10.5) | (10.6) | (0.16) | (0.14) | (5.45) | (5.78) | |||||
| p Value | 0.93 | 0.18 | 0.31 | ||||||||