Cosopt eye drops 5 ml

Cosopt eye drop ingredients

Cosopt eye drop contains:

• Dorzolamide, which belongs to carbonic anhydrate inhibitors.

• Timolol, which belongs to beta blockers.

Cosopt uses

Cosopt eye drop is used to reduce high eye pressure and treat glaucoma.

Cosopt dosage

• Used as per the doctor's instructions.

• The dose is one drop in the morning and the other in the evening in the diseased eye.

• If you use another drop of the eye, they should be separated by 10 minutes.

• Container tip should not come into contact with the surface of the eye to prevent infection.

How to use Cosopt?

• Wash hands first.

• Open the container with no contact with the container tip to the eye surface or skin.

• Tilt the head back, and hold the container upside down.

• Pull the lower eyelid down and pressing on the container to allow drops to fall into the eye.

• Squeeze with your finger the corner between the eye and nose, or close the eye for two minutes, to prevent the medication from entering the rest of the body.

• Repeat the same steps in the other eye if it is also diseased.

• Cover the container and close it tightly.

Cosopt side effects

Cosopt eye drop may cause some side effects, such as:

• Burning in the eye.

• An unusual taste in the mouth.

• Eye redness.

• Eye itching.

• Corneal abrasion.

• Feeling something in the eye.

• headache.

• Sinusitis.

• Blurred vision.

• Fatigue and tire.

Cosopt contraindications

Cosopt eye drop is not used in case of:

• Allergy to ingredients.

• Suffering from or having breathing problems, such as asthma.

• Slow heart rhythm or heart failure.

• Arrhythmias.

• Severe kidney disease.

• Previously had kidney stones.

• Hypercholremic acidosis.

Cosopt Precautions

A doctor should be consulted before using a drop of Cosopt in case:

• Heart disease.

• Breathing problems.

• Poor blood circulation.

• Diabetes, because a drop of Cosopt contains timolol, which may lower blood sugar levels.

• Hyperthyroidism.

• Muscle weakness or myasthenia dystrophy.

• Children.

• Pregnancy and lactation.

• Take other medications.

Preservation and storage of the drug

• Keep out of children's reach.

• The drug is not used after expiry.

• It doesn't require certain temperatures to store, but it should be kept away from the light.

• Cosopt eye drop is not used 28 days after the container is opened.