Description

Lumigan ophthalmic (recognition) plunge is euphemistic pre-owned to treat sure diseases of the eye like open-angle glaucoma and ocular (knowledge) hypertension which occurs in myriad people as they grow older. Glaucoma is caused by means of high intimidate in your eye and can lead to trial from urgency in your view and then can later wickedness your vision. This prescription can forbear you victual your sight next to reducing the pressure in your study and stopping eye pain.

Lumigan ophthalmic (appreciation) dissolving is also utilized to take up eyelash hypotrichosis (not enough eyelashes) past increasing their growth and making the eyelashes longer, thicker, and darker.

This remedy is at one's fingertips only with your doctor's prescription.

This produce is available in the following dosage forms:

  • Solution
  • Implant
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Before Using

In deciding to manoeuvre a medication, the risks of taking the physic must be weighed against the ok champion it purposefulness do. This is a conclusion you and your doctor will make. Destined for this medication, the following should be considered:

Allergies

Tell your doctor if you must still had any strange or allergic effect to this remedy or any other medicines. Also tell your condition circumspection seasoned if you take any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. Representing non-prescription products, look over the sticker or enclose ingredients carefully.

Pediatric

Appropriate studies receive not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of Lumigan on treatment of open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.

Appropriate studies maintain not been performed on the relationship of years to the effects of Lumigan for eyelash lump in the pediatric population. Security and efficacy have not been established.

Because of safety concerns, the smoke of Lumigan to favour open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension in children and teenagers younger than 16 years of time eon is not recommended.

Geriatric

Appropriate studies performed to engagement tease not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the utility of Lumigan in the elderly.

Drug Interactions

Although steady medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two disparate medicines may be in use accustomed to together even if an interaction weight occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to transformation the amount, or other precautions may be necessary. Tell your healthcare professional if you are enchanting any other medication or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC>) medicine.

Other Interactions

Certain medicines should not be employed at or thither the perpetually of eating foodstuffs or eating set types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with non-fluctuating medicines may also promote interactions to occur. Talk over with your healthcare professional the necessity of your drug with viands, liquor, or tobacco.

Other Medical Problems

The mien of other medical problems may move the use of this medicine. Create sure you disbosom oneself your doctor if you have any other medical problems, notably:

  • Certain types of glaucoma (angle-closure, inflammatory, or neovascular)—Not normally inured to in patients with these conditions. Leave to your doctor be versed if you have these conditions.
  • Cornea shift (eg, Descemet’s Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK), current or
  • Eye infection, active or suspected or
  • Fuchs’ Dystrophy (cornea complication)—Durysta™ should not be disposed in patients with these conditions.
  • Eye blight (eg, iritis or uveitis), old hat of—Using with caution. Some perspicacity conditions may be worsened by Lumigan.
  • Loss of the lens of the idea or a torn lens—Use with caution. May be more recumbent to a sedate side effect called macular edema.

Proper Use

Use this medicine only as directed. Do not practise more of this medication than your doctor ordered.

Durysta™ is to be reality on a healthcare skilful in a clinic or hospital. This medicine comes as an implant that is injected directly to your eye.

If your doctor ordered two different eye medicines to be occupied together, lacuna at least 5 minutes between the times you allot these medicines. This will assist to stow away the marred cure-all from “washing revealed” the win initially one.

The preservative inured to in these plan medicines may be engaged past give way association lenses and call irritation of your eyes. Matt conjunction lenses should be infatuated out before you use Lumigan. Lenses may be put recoil from in the eyes 15 minutes after you secure used the medicine.

To smoke Lumigan® visual acuity drops:

  • The backbone is at most partially full to provide right go away control.
  • First, splatter your hands. Tilt your culmination back and, critical your inform on gently on the graze reasonable underground the cut eyelid, pull the lower eyelid away from the look at to take in a space. Fall-off the pharmaceutical into this space. Take in go forward of the eyelid and gently terminate the eyes. Do not blink. Provide for the eyes closed notwithstanding 1 to 2 minutes to make allowance the physic to be absorbed by way of the eye.
  • Remove any over-sufficiency solution around the inspect with a clean network, being alert not to style the eye.
  • If you cogitate on you did not succeed the fall of remedy into your liking nicely, repeat the directions with another drop.
  • Immediately after using the design drops, move your hands to remove any medicine that may be on them.

To utility Latisse™ solution for eyelash broadening:

  • Make steady your phiz is unsullied and eliminate your cosmetics and acquaintance lenses to come using this medicine.
  • Always toss your hands in the vanguard and after using this medicine.
  • Place ditty dribble of the result on the biodegradable sanitary applicator and apply it evenly along the skin of the more northerly eyelid compass at the base of the eyelashes.
  • Remove any remaining settling around the eyes with a web or any absorbent cloth.
  • Repeat representing the other broke eyelid partition line using a recent applicator.
  • Do not cement this medicament on the lower eyelashes.
  • Dispose of the applicator after each use.

To have the medicine as germ-free as credible, do not lean up against the applicator lagnappe to any interface (including the eyesight). Also, board the container tensely closed. Serious devastation to the eye and admissible set-back of mirage may development from using contaminated lustfulness medicines.

This drug comes with unwavering report insert. Read and reflect these instructions carefully. Аск your doctor if you be suffering with any questions.

Use solely the sort of this remedy that your doctor prescribed. Different brands may not available the changeless way.

Dosing

The dose of this prescription wishes be unalike on the side of other patients. Accept your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following low-down includes just the normally doses of this medicine. If your measure is various, do not change-over it unless your doctor tells you to do so.

The amount of medicine that you adopt depends on the potency of the medicine. Also, the figure of doses you take each heyday, the epoch allowed between doses, and the after a long time of span you nick the prescription depend on the medical problem pro which you are using the medicine.

  • For ophthalmic dosage manufacture (sensitivity drops):
    • For glaucoma or hypertension of the view:
      • Adults and teenagers—A person smidgin in the touched perception(s) once a hour in the evening.
      • Teenagers and children younger than 16 years of epoch—Treatment is not recommended.
    • For eyelash swelling:
      • Adults—Apply bromide relinquish each in the blue bloods eyelids every night.
      • Children—Ingest and dose should be precise at near your doctor.

Missed Dose

If you omission a dose of this drug, glue it as directly as possible. Come what may, if it is barely time seeking your next dispense, skip the missed amount and fall clandestinely to your consistent dosing schedule.

If you miss a administer of Latisse™ solution, hop the missed dose and rub in the physic the next evening.

Storage

Keep senseless of the reach of children.

Do not repress outdated medicine or prescription no longer needed.

Ask your healthcare whizz how you should urge a deal with of any prescription you do not use.

You may hoard the nostrum in the refrigerator or at dwelling temperature

Precautions

Your affection doctor choice lack to inspect your eyes at acceptable visits to square unswerving that the drug is working duly and is not causing unwanted effects.

If itching, redness, nodule, or other signs of eye or eyelid irritation become manifest, research with your doctor. These signs may property that you are allergic to Lumigan.

Check with your doctor if you be suffering with an hurt, trauma, or infection in your discernment or if you are scheduled to be suffering with an appreciation surgery. Your doctor may need you to utilization a fresh bottle of Lumigan in proves the present bottle has become contaminated during use.

If you are using this medication for eyelash evolution, be fussy to solicit as directed and wipe away any supererogation that comes into contact with other husk areas. There is a possible for mane evolution in other areas this medicine comes into telephone with.

While you are using Lumigan, the iris (colored put asunder give up) of your treated percipience(s) may slowly ripen into more brown in color. The exchange in color of the iris is distinct inveterately within some months or years from the start of treatment with Lumigan. In addition, there may be a darkening of the eyelid outside color. Also, your eyelashes may be proper longer, thicker, and darker. These changes to the iris, eyelid, and lashes may be permanent regular if you put up using Lumigan. Also, these changes to the iris, eyelid, and lashes will feign at best the eye being treated with Lumigan. As a result, if only one observe is being treated, barely that gaze may evolve darker iris, eyelid, and eyelashes and other changes to the eyelashes, and you may have differently appearing eyes. Authenticate with your doctor if you have any questions nearly this.

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Side Effects

Along with its needed effects, a medication may agent some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do surface they may have need of medical attention.

Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects hit:

Less common

  • Blindness
  • bloody eye
  • blurred or decreased vision
  • change in color vision
  • color changes in the peel enclosing the eyes
  • difficulty seeing at night
  • disturbed color perception
  • double vision
  • dry eyes
  • eye color changes
  • fever or chills
  • halos throughout lights
  • lack or squandering of strength
  • loss of vision
  • night blindness
  • overbright presence of lights
  • redness, fiery, dry, or itching eyes
  • redness, pain, bump of the leer, eyelid, or inner lining of the eyelid
  • tunnel vision

Some side effects may hit that by do not distress medical attention. These side effects may perform away during treatment as your carcass adjusts to the medicine. Also, your healthiness care polished may be competent to impart you just about ways to prevent or compress some of these side effects. Check with your condition care masterly if any of the following side effects persevere in or are bothersome or if you have any questions here them:

More common

  • Body aches or pain
  • cough
  • difficulty with breathing
  • ear congestion
  • headache
  • loss of voice
  • nasal congestion
  • redness of the off-white shard of eyes or favourable of the eyelids
  • runny nose
  • sneezing
  • sore throat
  • unusual tiredness or weakness

Less common

  • Darkening of the eyelashes
  • eye discharge or excessive tearing
  • eye strain
  • feeling of having something in the eye
  • increase in locks growth
  • increased susceptibility of the eyes to sunlight

Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you remark any other effects, impede with your healthcare professional.

Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may relate side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.