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Tobramycin/dexamethasone, sold under the brand name Tobradex, is a fixed-dose combination medication in the form of eye drops and eye ointment, marketed by Alcon. [1] [2] [3] The active ingredients are tobramycin (an antibiotic) and dexamethasone (a corticosteroid). [2] It is prescribed for the treatment of pink eye in combination with ...
Onset of effects with the drops is typically within an hour and lasts for up to a day. [1] By mouth it is used for dry mouth as a result of Sjögren syndrome or radiation therapy. [9] Common side effects of the eye drops include irritation of the eye, increased tearing, headache, and blurry vision. [1]
Dexamethasone is a fluorinated glucocorticoid medication [10] used to treat rheumatic problems, a number of skin diseases, severe allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), croup, brain swelling, eye pain following eye surgery, superior vena cava syndrome (a complication of some forms of cancer), [11] and along with antibiotics in tuberculosis. [10]
The researchers involved in the study hope to replicate what they have found and implement that in clinical trials to offer an alternative to current cataract treatment -- painful and expensive ...
The eye drops come in 25-count packages. Alcon issued the recall after a consumer complained of a “foreign material” they found in a sealed vial of the eye drops. When the company investigated ...
On hourly treatment with the eye drops for a week, blood serum concentrations peaked at 150 pg/ml on average, with many patients remaining below the detection threshold of 80 pg/ml. The elimination half-life from the circulation is estimated at one to two hours; the substance is mainly (over 80%) excreted via the faeces.
A phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) is an intraocular lens that is implanted surgically into the eye to correct refractive errors without removing the natural lens (also known as "phakos", hence the term). Intraocular lenses that are implanted into eyes after the eye's natural lens has been removed during cataract surgery are known as pseudophakic.
Recommended duration of treatment is less than six days, [4] and in Switzerland not more than seven days (parenterally two days). [6] It is used by mouth, by nose, by injection into a vein or muscle, and as eye drops. [4] [5] Effects begin within an hour and last for up to eight hours. [4] Ketorolac also has antipyretic (fever-reducing ...