What Are Atropine Eye Drops?
Atropine eye drops are a medicine for treating myopia.
Atropine eye drops
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- Drug Name
- Atropine eye drops
- Foreign name
- Atropine
- Whether prescription drugs
- Non-prescription drugs
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- Inadvertent use
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- Atropine eye drops are a medicine for treating myopia.
- Eyes with myopia have larger eyeballs than normal, and there are no drugs or treatments to shrink them. Because of this, once you have myopia , the degree will only increase. The situation of hyperopia is just the opposite. Children with hyperopia have smaller eyeballs than normal, but as the child grows, the eyeballs will gradually increase, and there is a chance that the eyeballs will grow to normal size. Hyperopia will disappear as a result, and they will heal without medical treatment.
- At this stage, the drug developed by scientists for patients with myopia is aimed at reducing the short-range adjustment of the ciliary body muscles, which is the initial stage of stimulating myopia. These drugs belong to the Atropine category and have been used in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan in recent years. They can reduce the close-range adjustment and mimic the function of the eye to see things far away. Scientists experimented with animals and dropped atropine eye drops into the animal's half-stitched eyes, and the myopia was significantly reduced. Atropine has been used in ophthalmology for dilated pupil examination for many years. It is widely used in other disciplines in medicine. Atropine is long lasting and can last for weeks in the eye. But these drugs also dilate the pupils and cause blurred vision. Another latest drug, Pirenzepine, has the function of relaxing ciliary body muscles without causing pupil dilation and blurred vision. However, although Pirenzepine only accounts for 2% of the test drug, it occasionally causes eyes to become red or sensitive, so it has its inconvenience.
- How can we effectively control the increase in myopia without dilating the pupils and avoiding eye sensitivity? A recent and improved method of use is to properly dilute and mix the proportions of the two drugs so that they can not only reduce myopia, but also not dilate the pupils or cause eye sensitivity. Because these two drugs are not steroids, they have high safety and low side effects. Due to the different degrees of myopia and the different reactions to drugs, Hong Kong ophthalmologists will make appropriate adjustments according to the actual situation of the patient to achieve the best treatment results. Persistence in the use of this drug is important, and patience and persistence of parents are important.
- Drugs such as atropine have been used in medicine for many years, and why it is now used to treat myopia is an interesting question. One of the reasons is that we have never seen myopia as a problem, at most as a defect. As mentioned earlier, deep myopia can gradually become a disease, and modern people should start paying attention.