[Feeling of sand in the eyes and hormonal contraceptives (authors transl)]

By questionnaire forms the relation between the admission of taking antibaby pills and the subjective feeling of having sand in the eyes was checked. Out of 2201 patients from our group, aged between 9 and 84 years, 372 (16.9%) took hormonal contraceptives, 1812 (82.3%) denied the taking of contraceptives and 17 (0.8%) could not say. From the 372 patients who took hormonal contraceptives 37 (10%) complained of having the feeling of sand in the eyes, the other 335 (90%) denied having a feeling of sand in the eyes. The frequency of a subjective feeling of sand in the eyes was in the individual age groups independent of the subjective statement, of "take hormonal contraceptives" (chi2-test; P greater than 10%).