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EzriCare Artificial Tears Lubricant Eye Drops: According to the CDC, this product was implicated as a common factor in 37 of the 68 logged cases so far. Potentially tainted eye drops can be ...
The bacteria linked to recalled eyedrops causing infection and blindness had never been seen in the U.S. until 2022, the CDC says Almost 70 infections have been linked to the recalled eyedrops in ...
On February 2, 2023, the CDC advised people to stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears and said that the eye drops were contaminated. The P. aeruginosa strain had been found in 55 people across 12 states as of January 31, resulting in one death and vision loss in five people.
Eye drops are being recalled due to a rare bacterium found in artificial tears. Find a list of recalled drops in 2023. Plus, eye infection symptoms.
The CDC said recalled EzriCare and other eyedrops have been linked to more deaths and vision loss because rare bacterial infections.
In 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pilocarpine hydrochloride as an eyedrop treatment for presbyopia, age-related difficulty with near-in vision. It works by causing the pupils to constrict, increasing depth of field , similar to the effect of pinhole glasses .
Laser blended vision is a laser eye treatment which is used to treat presbyopia (ageing eyes; [1] progressive loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects) or other age-related eye conditions. [1] It can be used to help people that simply need reading glasses, and also those who have started to need bifocal or varifocal spectacle correction ...
The Food and Drug Administration compiled a list of over-the-counter eye drops to avoid. 27 eye drops from retailers in California can cause vision loss, FDA warns. See the recall