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Dr Noah Klein, M.D. -- Comprehensive (General) Ophthalmology |
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Noah Klein, MD |
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HOW TO TAKE GLAUCOMA DROPS
1. Pull down the bottom eyelid and make a pocket.
2. Squeeze a drop into the pocket but be careful not to poke the tip of the bottle into your eye.
3. As soon as you feel the drop go in, close your eye and apply light pressure, with your fingertip, by the corner of your eye, right by your nose.
4. With the eye closed, hold the pressure and count to 200.
Keeping your eye closed prevents you from blinking and washing the drop away. Applying pressure blocks off the passage to the sinus that drains the eye. This technique makes the drop stay in your eye longer so that the eye absorbs it more completely. Better absorption by the eye makes the medication more effective.
Also, since the eye is absorbing more medication, the rest of your body is absorbing less. Thus possible side effects to the rest of your body are minimized.
Since the eye cannot even hold one whole drop, no more than one drop per dose is ever needed
This technique for taking drops is called Punctal Occlusion.
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