Proper use of eye medication is crucial in the treatment of eye diseases

I am always asked by many patients how to treat conjunctivitis, or why conjunctivitis is easily recurring, or why conjunctivitis cannot be cured for a long time. The following is a summary of the problems that many patients have, and I hope that the details of the drops and experience will help you, after all, conjunctivitis is the most common and simplest disease in ophthalmology, no specialist is specialized in conjunctivitis, so it is often difficult for patients to make an appointment to see a specialist in this specialty, and no specialist is willing to specialize in conjunctivitis, because this type of eye disease is too common. The correct way to order eye drops: 1. Wash your hands before ordering eye drops; 2. Sit with your head tilted or lying down, open your lower eyelid, look upwards and order eye drops into the conjunctival sac of the eye, one drop is enough (the conjunctival sac of the eye holds only 70% to 80% of a drop of eye drops); 3. The mouth of the bottle of eye drops should be 1 to 2 cm from the eyelid and eyelashes of the eye, don’t touch the eyelid and eyelashes, otherwise the bottle will be contaminated. Bacteria breeding in the eye drops, eye drops failure; 4, eye drops point after the eyes closed rest eyes, 3 to 5 minutes; 5, finger pressure tear dots, tear ducts, tear sac area for 3 to 5 minutes to prevent eye drops into the nasal cavity, resulting in the absorption of the nasal mucosa, causing systemic side effects, but also to make eye drops in the eye for a longer period of time. (Parents of children are always worried about the side effects of eye drops, pay attention to this detail, you will control the side effects to the minimum minimum level) 6, the general number of eye drops dotted eye is 4 to 6 times a day, must be on time and regular eye dots, otherwise the efficacy can not be guaranteed. If it is acute conjunctivitis (commonly known as, pink eye), antibiotic eye drops to 6 to 8 times a day, or even 1 to 2 hours a drop; 7, eye drops generally point to 1 to 2 weeks, the seriousness of the eye drops point to 3 to 4 weeks, to stop under the guidance of a doctor, do not stop the drug as soon as the eye is well, or a few days to stop a few days, three days fishing and two days to sunbathe, so easy to eye disease repeatedly, prolonged, must ensure 8, eye drops after the point, if the summer, it is best to put in 4 ° refrigerator storage, so that the chemical properties of stable; 9, must be contraindicated with their own light saline cleaning eyes, or what other cleaning solution with their own cleaning eyes; 10, if you encounter 2 kinds of 3 or 4 kinds of eye drops at the same time, eye drops between the interval of 3 or 5 to 10 minutes, each eye drops only point 1 drop, because The eye only holds one drop of eye drops, that is to say, after ordering one drop of eye drops, interval 3 to 5 minutes before ordering another eye drops, to stagger the time; 11, the maintenance of eye drops is generally about 2 to 3 hours, eye ointment maintenance time of about 4 to 6 hours, so before going to bed at night, you can use eye ointment with the night to maintain the efficacy. The antibiotic eye ointment that is generally applied inside the eye at night is commonly used: tobramycin eye ointment, erythromycin eye ointment, and ofloxacin eye ointment; 12, do not easily or given with hormonal eye drops, such as eye drops containing dexamethasone, because the long-term application of eye drops with hormones, will cause eye pressure to rise, the general application of eye drops with hormones, such as tobramycin dexamethasone to drops, the application of 2 weeks is more It is safe to apply hormonal eye drops, such as tobramycin dexamethasone, for 2 weeks, but for more than 2 or 3 weeks, it is necessary to test the IOP. If it is conjunctivitis, for example, the common antibiotic anti-inflammatory eye drops: tobramycin eye drops (tobramycin eye drops, less side effects for children), ofloxacin eye drops (including ofloxacin eye drops, levofloxacin hydrochloride eye drops, levofloxacin lactate eye drops, we can often buy Telbivitol eye drops, colobivitol eye drops in pharmacies), gatifloxacin eye drops. Commonly used antiviral eye drops: acyclovir eye drops, ganciclovir gel. Commonly used eye drops for repairing corneal epithelium: Bevosol, Ebay, Hailu, Siren, etc. Commonly used anti-allergy eye drops include: sodium cromoglycate drops, Ralisan, Patanlo, Nemedivir, Emetine, Alamax and hormonal eye drops. Eye drops are usually ordered 4 to 6 times during the day, and eye ointment is usually ordered at night before bedtime and applied inside the eyes.