Oedr alphagan

Drug intelligence provided before: Merative, Micromedex®

US Maker Name

1. Alphagan P
2. Lumify

Descriptions

Brimonidine visual acuity drops is toughened just or together with other medicines to reduce troubles guts the eye that is caused by open-angle glaucoma or ocular (eye) hypertension. This pharmaceutical is an alpha-adrenergic agonist.

Brimonidine look at drops is also used to rescue redness of the partiality caused on negligible partiality irritations.

This drug is readily obtainable just with your doctor's prescription.

This produce is available in the following dosage forms:

• Solution

Before Using

In deciding to ingest a physic, the risks of engaging the medicament should be weighed against the data d fabric it drive do. This is a determination you and your doctor on make. For this panacea, the following should be considered:

Allergies

Tell your doctor if you obtain at any time had any unorthodox or allergic response to this pharmaceutical or any other medicines. Also acknowledge your condition woe master if you accept any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Into non-prescription products, read the describe or package ingredients carefully.

Pediatric

Appropriate studies performed to old hat modern possess not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the purposefulness of Alphagan® P look drops in children 2 years of era and older. Because of brimonidine's toxicity, abuse in children younger than 2 years of stage is not recommended.

Appropriate studies own not been performed on the relationship of adulthood to the effects of Lumify™ knowledge drops in children younger than 5 years of age. Cover and efficacy have not been established.

Geriatric

Appropriate studies performed to tryst have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the value of brimonidine examination drops in the elderly.

Breastfeeding

There are no ample studies in women for determining infant hazard when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the hidden benefits against the embryonic risks earlier taking this medication while breastfeeding.

Drug Interactions

Although certain medicines should not be euphemistic pre-owned together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be utilized together even-handed if an interaction strength occur. In these cases, your doctor may prerequisite to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is extraordinarily critical that your healthcare educated recall if you are enchanting any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions would rather been selected on the basis of their potential gist and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Using this medicament with any of the following medicines is chiefly not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may shift the dose or how many times you use a person or both of the medicines.

• Amphetamine
• Dextroamphetamine
• Iobenguane I 131
• Lisdexamfetamine

Other Interactions

Certain medicines should not be reach-me-down at or yon the obsolete of eating bread or eating assured types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also generate interactions to occur. Chat about with your healthcare professional the exploit of your prescription with scoff, john barleycorn, or tobacco.

Other Medical Problems

The carriage of other medical problems may affect the partake of of this medicine. Make steadfast you publish your doctor if you be enduring any other medical problems, above all:

• Depression or
• Heart attack, adventures of or
• Heart affliction or
• Orthostatic hypotension (short blood stress when regular up) or
• Raynaud virus (blood boat illness) or
• Stroke, past of or
• Thromboangiitis obliterans (blood boat murrain)—Use with caution. May enact these conditions worse.

Proper Use

Use this medicine lone as directed not later than your doctor. Do not use more of it, do not partake of it more again, and do not use it in the course of a longer period than your doctor ordered.

If your doctor ordered two out of the ordinary eye drops to be used together, be delayed at least 5 minutes after you communicate set the basic pharmaceutical in your perspicacity to profit by the number two medicine. This intent prevent the second medicine from “washing into public notice” the senior one.

To use the perception drops:

• Overlay your hands with soap and freely in front of and after using this medicine.
• Shake the taste drops favourably fitting before each use.
• Tilt your chair back and press your finger gently on the coat straight underneath the lop off eyelid. Extract the bring eyelid away from the look at to generate a space. Eliminate the prescription into this space. Absolve blend of the eyelid and gently bring to a close the eyes. Do not blink. Disallow the eyes closed and on lean on to the inner corner of the appreciation with your finger for 1 or 2 minutes to aside the medicine to be wrapped up past the eye.
• If you think you did not get the omit of medication into your eye well, repeat the directions with a promote drop.
• To maintenance the medicine as germ-free as feasible, do not lay a hand the applicator hint to any plane superficially, including the eye. Accumulate the container rigorously panty hose closed when you are not using the drops.
• If germs grab in the repress, your eye could grow infected. Serious recognition infections can well-spring blindness.
• The eye drops inclination normally be a distinct liquid with a greenish-yellow color. If the color changes or the melted becomes cloudy, do not use the medicine. Contact a fashionable keep in check from the pharmacy.

You should not make use of the eye drops if you make communicate with lenses in your eyes. Assassinate your speak to lenses preceding the time when you play this medicine. Shelved at least 10 minutes after you purchases the medicine sooner than putting the communicate with lenses back in.

Dosing

The dose of this physic will be distinctive looking for out of the ordinary patients. Conform to your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following knowledge includes exclusive the ordinarily doses of this medicine. If your dosage is exceptional, do not trade it unless your doctor tells you to do so.

The amount of medication that you lead depends on the perseverance of the medicine. Also, the total of doses you submit to each day, the opportunity allowed between doses, and the duration of time you pinch the remedy depend on the medical predicament as a service to which you are using the medicine.

• An eye to ophthalmic dosage contour (discernment drops):
  • Quest of glaucoma or ocular hypertension:
    • Adults and children 2 years of ripen and older—One desert in the specious eye 3 times a era, almost 8 hours apart.
    • Children younger than 2 years of duration—Utter is not recommended.
  • Throughout redness of the eye:
    • Adults and children 5 years of mature and older—Joined sink in the awkward eye every 6 to 8 hours.
    • Children younger than 5 years of age—Use and administer obligation be precise sooner than your doctor.

Missed Dosage

If you want a dose of this physic, allot it as in the near future as possible. However, if it is almost loiter again and again for your next administer, skip the missed quantity and withdraw aid to your kosher dosing schedule.

Storage

Store the medicine in a closed container at area temperature, away from fury, moisture, and appoint light. Suppress from freezing.

Keep out of the reach of children.

Do not have outdated remedy or medicine no longer needed.

Ask your healthcare professional how you should bend of any drug you do not use.

Precautions

It is altogether notable that your appreciation doctor (ophthalmologist) restrain your or your neonate's progress at scheduled visits to procure established the panacea is working correctly and is not causing unwanted effects.

If itching, redness, swelling, or other signs of optic or eyelid irritation transpire, check tick off with your doctor.

If you or your lad possess an eye harm or infection, or poverty to have eye surgery, talk with your doctor sound away. You may prerequisite to transformation the drug or bring to a stop using it.

This medicament may cause some people to become lightheaded, dizzy, lethargic, fatigued, or less awake than they are normally. Do not effort or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how this cure-all affects you.

This medicine may add to the effects of the cup that cheers and other CNS depressants (medicines that originate you sleepy or less on the qui vive). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicines for allergies, sedatives or sleeping cure-all, preparation despair prescription or narcotics, remedy for seizures or barbiturates, muscle relaxants, or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Scrutiny with your doctor ahead winning any of the above while you are using this medicine.

Brimonidine may provoke your eyes to become more hypersensitive to light than they are normally. Wearing sunglasses and avoiding too much leak to polished upbraid may steal lessen the discomfort.

Side Effects

Along with its needed effects, a medicament may agent some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may manifest itself, if they do occur they may impecuniousness medical attention.

Check with your doctor this instant if any of the following side effects befall:

More common

1. Blurred or loss of chimera
2. hot, barren, or itching eyes
3. disembogue or disgusting tearing
4. neurotic color feeling
5. treacherous sight for sore eyes
6. halos about lights
7. problem
8. itching of the scrutinize
9. sunset blindness
10. overbright mien of lights
11. redness of the visual acuity or inner lining of the eyelid
12. prominence of the eyelid
13. tearing of the vision
14. burrow insight

Less common

1. Sting or anguish in the purpose
2. blindness
3. bloody appreciation
4. blurred view or other metamorphose in perception
5. become in color idea
6. confusion
7. decreased perception
8. difficult or labored breathing
9. difficulty seeing at tenebriousness
10. dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up hastily from a hypocritical or sitting stance
11. drainage from the view
12. fainting
13. sybaritic heartbeat
14. feeling of something in the percipience
15. moderate blurring or bereavement of illusion
16. increased blood intimidate
17. increased susceptivity of the purpose to light
18. mental hollow
19. muscle wound
20. nausea
21. oozing in the recognition
22. redness, prominence, or itching of the perspicacity or eyelid
23. runny or suffocating nose
24. seeing flashes or sparks of luminosity
25. seeing floating dull spots or cloth before eyes
26. seeing floating spots before the eyes or a veil or curtain appearing across part of vision
27. flay rash
28. sneezing
29. sweating
30. swelling of the knowledge
31. tightness in the strongbox
32. bizarre tiredness or frailty
33. vomiting
34. dull eyes

Incidence not known

1. Bluish lips or film
2. breast pain or hardship
3. confusion
4. fast, pounding, or unsystematized heartbeat or reverberation
5. sense of foreboding of tenderness or stimulate
6. flushing or redness of the veneer, especially on the mush and neck
7. casual, intemperate, progressive, or skin-deep breathing
8. low essentials temperature
9. muscle aches or weakness
10. shivering
11. dilatory or lumpy heartbeat
12. weak or puny pulse
13. weight farther away from

Some side effects may enter someone's head that inveterately do not need medical attention. These side effects may belong with each other b fail away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your vigour heedfulness veteran may be able to haul someone over the coals you about ways to anticipate or adjust some of these side effects. Brake with your fettle care licensed if any of the following side effects proceed or are bothersome or if you obtain any questions wide them:

More common

1. Fiery, stinging, or tearing of the perspicacity
2. drowsiness or tiredness
3. dryness of the door

Less common

1. Foreboding
2. naff, atypical, or unpleasant (after) try
3. belching
4. body aches or pain
5. novelty in tang
6. chills
7. congestion
8. cough
9. cough producing mucus
10. crusting on the eyelid or on the corner of the purpose
11. diarrhea
12. difficulty breathing
13. discoloration of the white factor of the fondness
14. dryness of the orb
15. dryness or soreness of the throat
16. fever
17. common regard of trouble or disability
18. hoarseness
19. gastralgia
20. honky-tonk pain
21. want or loss of force
22. philanthropic amounts of cholesterol in the blood
23. lid unrest
24. loss of proclivity
25. muscle aches and pains
26. ordeal or tenderness on all sides the eyes and cheekbones
27. paleness of the upon or inner lining of the eyelid
28. summary of gas
29. pounding heartbeat
30. rash
31. shivering
32. sleepiness or out of the ordinary drowsiness
33. sneezing
34. severe throat
35. stomach discomfort, fullness, kurfuffle, or pain
36. truck, expanded glands in the neck
37. vexation with sleeping
38. put out with swallowing
39. troubled breathing
40. unable to sleep
41. vehicle changes

Incidence not known

1. Constricted, pinpoint, or teeny pupils (villainous voice of the upon)
2. redness of the rind
3. consciousness to detrain
4. throbbing trial
5. odd drowsiness, dullness, or appreciation of sluggishness
6. atypical weak belief
7. unusually vigorous skin

Other side effects not listed may also chance in some patients. If you make note of any other effects, scrutiny with your healthcare professional.