7 Most Used Hypertension Drugs and How They Lower High Blood Pressure

The two main problems in hypertension therapy are; getting the patient to the physician and persuading his/her to continue treatment once it has begun. For a patient who had no symptoms before the treatment was begun, the symptom that can be caused by the medication may persuade him/her to discontinue treatment even though he/she knows it is keeping his blood pressure under control.

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Anti-inflammatory Drugs, Analgesics and Anesthetics: The Difference and Clarifications

Lots of medical students usually get confused and something’s interpret these drugs wrongly. They confuse anti-inflammatory drugs with analgesics and analgesics with anesthetics. In this post am going to simplify each category of drug sequentially for better understanding and clarification.

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Cataract Dissolving Drugs-Lanosterol

The end of cataract surgery is seriously approaching as researchers in United States of America develop a new drug chemical that will basically shrink down and dissolve cataracts.

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Eye Drops and Ointments

Eye drops and ointments are indicated to produce a local effect directly on the eye. They are prescribed to treat many symptoms affecting the eyes including: Redness, Infections, Dry eye, Discharge,

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Application Of Ocular Drugs

  How to apply eye drops

1. The patient should wash his or her hands thoroughly before eye drop administration. To make the procedure easier, use a mirror or ask someone

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Ocular Complications and Side Effects of Topical Steroid Eye Drops

Corticosteroids are important therapeutic agents that are used to treat ocular inflammation. Their complications are related to dosage and duration of therapy because usually, no serious adverse effect is observed

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Antiglaucoma Therapy: Topical And Systemic

Treatment of glaucoma is based on the assumption that lowering intraocular pressure currently is the most important thing an eye doctor can do for the patient. At the present time, benefits such as improved blood flow or direct neuroprotection of retinal ganglion cells are secondary considerations when choosing primary therapy for patients with ocular hypertension or open-angle glaucoma.

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Steroid Antibiotic Eye Drop Combinations

The advantage of topical steroid and antibiotic combinations is that when decision is taken to administer such drugs combination, there is greater patient compliance and convenience with the added assurance that the appropriate dosage of both the drugs are in the same formulation, compatibility of ingredients is assured and the correct volume of drug is delivered and retained.

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Anti allergic Drugs: Topical And Systemic

Ocular allergic represents a variety of problems that are primarily type-1 hypersensitivity reactions (IgE mediated) which results in histamine release causing variety of uncomfortablesymptoms and sometime life-threatening complications.

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Steroidal and Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Eye Drops

Inflammation is the vascular and cellular response of the tissues to injury (endogenous and exogenous stimuli). Response to the injury is by production and release of many inflammatory mediators such as mast cells, lymphocytes, leukocytes, compliment, histamines, plasma kinins, proteolytic enzymes etc.

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Ophthalmic Antiviral Therapy: Topical And Systemic

Ocular viral infections have become a major cause of corneal blindness in the developed as well as developing countries.

Viruses do not only take nutrition from their hostcell but also direct its metabolic machinery to synthesize new virus particles. Viral chemotherapy is therefore difficulty as it would require interference with cellular metabolism in the host.

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Topical Anti-fungal Eye Drops In Ophthalmology

Fungi do not invade the cornea easily and seems to require trauma, contact lens wear or immunological compromise for infection. In the rural areas, trauma with vegetative material is a common cause while contact lens wear is a common cause in the urban areas. 

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Antibiotic Eye Drops For Eye Infections

The general principles of management of infection in any part of the body also apply to the eye infection. An accurate diagnosis is necessary before selecting the most effective antibiotic. Most of the commercially available antibiotics are safe if used at proper concentration. 

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