How to choose eye drops and ointment correctly?
antiviral agents
The word "Wei" is often used as a suffix for antiviral ophthalmic drugs, such as acyclovir and ganciclovir. If it is before and after a cold, white eye or black eye inflammation and mucus and water secretions, you can first choose this kind of eye drops or gel. The novel coronavirus pneumonia should also be applied when conjunctivitis is present.
Containing hormones
The eye medicine containing hormone is often called "XX song" or "XX long". These ophthalmic drugs play an important and indispensable role in the treatment of ocular inflammatory diseases and the control of inflammation after ophthalmic surgery. However, long-term nonstandard application will cause serious complications, such as glaucoma, cataract and so on. Therefore, hormone eye medicine under what circumstances, with how long, how much concentration, should be strictly in accordance with the doctor's advice. Patients should not make their own decisions and abuse them at will. It is often seen that a friend has an empty bottle of hormone eye drops prescribed by the doctor in his hand to buy medicine all the year round, which has great potential harm.
Antiallergic
The eye is located on the surface of the body and is vulnerable to the stimulation of external physical and chemical factors. The most common is allergic conjunctivitis, which occurs in all ages. The characteristic manifestation of this kind of inflammation is "itching". Antiallergic ophthalmic drugs act on different aspects of pathogenesis, which can be divided into double effect or single effect. There are many kinds of commonly used ophthalmic drugs, such as azelastine, emestine, olopatadine, etc. The second friend mentioned at the beginning of the article, itching eyes, applying erythromycin eye ointment will not work.
Nourishing
There is also a large category of eye medicine, which I call "eye tonics". Just like facial cosmetics, they can play the role of replenishing water, repairing and nourishing, such as sodium hyaluronate, beifushu, calf blood, etc. In the current electronic products flooding, this kind of eye medicine has a great place to use. But drugs are drugs after all, and can not be used without restraint.
Antibacterial
The most commonly used ophthalmic drugs are antibiotics, which are often labeled with "antibiotics" (such as erythromycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, etc.) and "floxacin" (such as lomefloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, etc.). This kind of eye medicine is mostly used for the redness, swelling, heat and pain of black eyeball, white eyeball and eyelid. Antibacterial ophthalmic drugs are also divided into two categories: antibacterial and antifungal. Bacterial infection is often accompanied by thick purulent secretion. The common people often say that "stealing the eye of a needle" is the bacterial infection on the eyelid. In addition to the therapeutic effect, antibacterials are also used to prevent and control infection before and after ophthalmic surgery. It should be noted that this kind of eye medicine can not be used continuously all year round. Some elderly people use this kind of eye medicine as a lubricant, which will cause eye flora imbalance and induce rare bacterial infection for a long time.
