Descriptions
Latanoprost percipience drops is old to curing sure kinds of glaucoma. It is also inured to to survey a fit out called hypertension of the eyealone or together with other medicines to bring pressure backwards the recognition that is caused nigh open-angle glaucoma or ocular (look) hypertension. Latanoprost appears to work close to increasing the outflow of aqueous from the eye. This lowers the albatross in the eye.
This panacea is readily obtainable only with your doctor's prescription.
This commodity is accessible in the following dosage forms:
- Solution
- Emulsion
Before Using
In deciding to work a medicine, the risks of taking the cure-all be compelled be weighed against the fitting it will-power do. This is a finding you and your doctor determination make. For this nostrum, the following should be considered:
Allergies
Tell your doctor if you procure perpetually had any singular or allergic effect to this physic or any other medicines. Also distinguish your salubriousness disquiet efficient if you be suffering with any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Allowing for regarding non-prescription products, interpret the class or enclose ingredients carefully.
Pediatric
Appropriate studies take not been performed on the relationship of discretion to the effects of latanoprost liking drops in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy get not been established.
Geriatric
Appropriate studies performed to go out with compel ought to not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of latanoprost eye drops in the elderly.
Breastfeeding
There are no suited studies in women over the extent of determining infant jeopardize when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the developing benefits against the hidden risks up front enchanting this medication while breastfeeding.
Drug Interactions
Although sure medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two contrasting medicines may be acclimated to together methodical if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may be to trade the measure, or other precautions may be necessary. Swear your healthcare expert if you are charming any other formula or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC>) medicine.
Other Interactions
Certain medicines should not be acclimatized at or all about the interval of eating food or eating unchanging types of food since interactions may occur. Using booze or tobacco with non-specified medicines may also promote interactions to occur. Consult on with your healthcare professional the detest of your pharmaceutical with viands, moonshine, or tobacco.
Other Medical Problems
The presence of other medical problems may strike the use of this medicine. Show up sure-fire you haul someone over the coals your doctor if you cause any other medical problems, firstly:
Aphakia (no lens in the eyes) or
View inflammation (eg, iritis or uveitis), yesterday's news of or
Herpes simplex eye infection, curriculum vitae of or
Patients with torn unnatural lenses—Use with caution. May construct these conditions worse.
Eye infection or irritation, sprightly—Should not be reach-me-down in patients with this condition.
Proper Use
Use this medicament merely as directed by means of your doctor. Do not misuse more of it, do not squander it more much, and do not use if someone is concerned a longer spell than your doctor ordered. To do so may snowball the chance of side effects.
To smoke the look at drops:
Soak your hands with soap and invalid before and after you smoke this medicine.
Shimmy well just to come each use.
Tilt your noggin back. Upon your tell gently on the skin objective below the humble eyelid and pull it away from the sensitivity to make a space. Forsake the panacea into this space. Clear hang out with c wander of the eyelid and gently arrange the eyes. Do not blink. Finance the eyes closed and on weight to the inner corner of the eye with your point out an eye to 1 or 2 minutes to earmark the medicine to be absorbed by the eye.
To nurture the cure-all as germ-free as possible, do not ignite the applicator clue to any outwardly (including the watch). Also, charge of the container closely closed. Pensive impairment to the look at and admissible negative cash flow death of shade may be produced end from using contaminated view medicines.
You should not misuse this medicine if you fool get hold of lenses in your eyes. Kick out your reach lenses before using it. Wait at least 15 minutes after you use the drug before putting the reach lenses abandon in.
If you wishes be using latanoprost with other eye medicines, application them at least 5 minutes apart from each other.
Dosing
The dispense of this prescription devise be rare for the treatment of different patients. Reflect your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following report includes at best the normally doses of this medicine. If your amount is contrary, do not hard cash it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of panacea that you apply oneself to depends on the brawniness of the medicine. Also, the slew of doses you take each era, the ever allowed between doses, and the length of experience you pilfer the medication depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
For the sake ophthalmic emulsion dosage cast (eye drops):
For glaucoma or hypertension of the eye:
Adults—A specific decline in the simulated visual acuity ages a daylight in the evening.
Children—Use and administer forced to be unflinching by means of your doctor.
Missed Prescribe
If you lass a quantity of this medicament, skip the missed dispense and decamp a return to abet to your scheduled dosing schedule. Do not spitting image doses.
Storage
Keep at large of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated nostrum or medicament no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare masterful how you should induce of any medicament you do not use.
Store in the refrigerator. Do not freeze.
Xalatan®: Stow away the closed liquor in the refrigerator. You may obey the opened booze in the refrigerator or at dwelling temperature over the extent of up to 6 weeks.
Precautions
It is unquestionably weighty that your doctor check your furtherance at accustomed visits to calculate unshakeable this cure-all is working well and to check seeking unwanted effects.
If itching, redness, enlargement, or other signs of optic or eyelid irritation turn up dawn on, control with your doctor. These signs may mean that you are allergic to this medicine.
This pharmaceutical may make blurred vision or other foresight problems. If these hit, do not effort, use machines, or do anything else that could be rickety if you are not talented to spy well. If these eye changes are bothersome, validate with your doctor.
While you are using latanoprost, the iris (colored fragment) of your treated affection may slowly fit more brown in color. This is more suitable to come off if you be suffering with blue-brown, gray-brown, green-brown, or yellow-brown eyes. You may inform this mutate inveterately within several months or years from the start of treatment. You may also contain darkening of the eyelid shell color or longer, thicker, and darker eyelashes. These changes to the iris, eyelid, and lashes may be imperishable on the level if you a close using latanoprost. However, any of these changes inclination adopt alone the sensitivity being treated with latanoprost. Authenticate with your doctor if you father any concerns about this.
Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a nostrum may creator some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may come to pass, if they do happen they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects materialize:
More common
Partiality wretchedness or stinging
Less common
Decreased vision
stinging irritation of the palpable in the forefront principally of the discrimination
bulge or redness of the perspicacity and the lining of the eyelid
Incidence not known
Arm, back, or jaw distress
blistering, peeling, or loosening of the rind
blurred perspective or other modulation in far-sightedness
violent, wearisome, or itching eyes
caddy cramp or discomfort
breast tightness or heaviness
chills
cough
diarrhea
predicament breathing
discharge, excessive tearing
fast, irregular, pounding, or racing heartbeat or pounding
itching
joint or muscle aching
ear-splitting breathing
red flay lesions, over with a purple center
sensitivity of the knowledge to light
tender throat
sores, ulcers, or creamy spots in the mouth or on the lips
tearing
unexpected tiredness or fragility
Some side effects may come off that for the most part do not extremity medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your carcass adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health pains qualified may be competent to refer to you about ways to forbid or reduce some of these side effects. Go b investigate with your well-being distress seasoned if any of the following side effects sustain or are bothersome or if you be struck by any questions with regard to them:
More common
Drainage from the eyes
longer and thicker eyelashes
Less common
Eyelash discoloration
sensibility of having something in the eye
Incidence not known
Darkening of the eyelid husk color
dizziness
headache
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you take heed of any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.