The Many Uses for Eye Medications

The Many Uses for Eye Medications

Eye medications can be used to treat eye diseases; they can also be used to diagnose eye conditions and to relieve allergies.

Eye medications can also be used to lubricate your eyes when you do not manufacture enough tears.

Eye medications can be given by drops, salves, ointments and also orally by tablet, capsule or liquid.

They can also be given by intravenous or by local injection (around the eye).

Eye medications are given for many reasons that include eye infections, glaucoma, allergies, and inflammation and also when foreign objects are in the eye area.

When administering eye medications you will want to first wash your hands, shake the eye medication (check label first), tilt your head back and look up.

Then gently pull the lower eyelid away from the eye, which will form a "pouch". This "pouch" is where you place the eye drop or ointment. Try not to touch the eye or the eyelid with the container or the dropper.

Your vision may be blurry for a few minutes after placing ointment in the eye. It will take approximately five minutes for most of the eye drop to be absorbed into the eye.

If you need to place a second drop in, wait at least five minutes for the first drop to be absorbed, then place the second drop using the same technique.

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Some of the more common eye medications are Acular, Artificial Tears, Atropine Ophthalmic, Ciloxan Ointment, Erythromycin Ointment, Gentamicin Ointment, Optivar, Patanol, PredForte Ophthalmic, Proparacaine, Timoptic, Trusopt, Visudyne, Voltaren and also Xalatan.

Steroid and antibiotic eye drops are commonly used to treat eye infections.

A commonly prescribed eye medication to treat glaucoma is Dorzolamide. They are usually applied to the eyes 3 times daily. This eye medication is not a cure for glaucoma; it is used to control it.

Researchers have found that using atropine eye drops, once a day can have the same benefits as patching the eye in order to treat amblyopia (lazy eye).

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The recent study will give comfort to children who have trouble keeping the eye patch on.

Because wearing the patch is critical to success of the therapy, using eye drops can be an easier route for parents and kids.

Eye medications have become increasingly important to not only treat eye disease but to aid in keeping the eye moisturized, and in curing eye conditions.

Your eyes are important not only for sight but also because we need them to look good!

Knowing how to properly instill eye drops or ointment and what to look for regarding side effects will help you use eye medications properly.

Most of us are not happy about having to use eye medications as things in our eyes can make us squeamish, but it is sometimes necessary to use eye mediations for the heath and well being of our eyes.