Description
Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops, 5ml
Duosopt Eye Drops are a prescription medication used to lower high pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma. The two active ingredients in Duosopt, dorzolamide and timolol, work together to reduce eye pressure in a unique way. For those who need an additional treatment option for their glaucoma, Duosopt may be the right choice.
What is Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a common eye condition where the optic nerve, which connects the eye to the brain, becomes damaged.
It’s usually caused by fluid building up in the front part of the eye, which increases pressure inside the eye.
Glaucoma can lead to loss of vision if it’s not diagnosed and treated early.
It can affect people of all ages, but is most common in adults in their 70s and 80s.
Glaucoma does not usually cause any symptoms to begin with.
It tends to develop slowly over many years and affects the edges of your vision (peripheral vision) first.
For this reason, many people do not realise they have glaucoma, and it’s often only picked up during a routine eye test.
If you do notice any symptoms, they might include blurred vision, or seeing rainbow-coloured circles around bright lights.
Both eyes are usually affected, although it may be worse in 1 eye.
Very occasionally, glaucoma can develop suddenly and cause:
- intense eye pain
- nausea and vomiting
- a red eye
- a headache
- tenderness around the eyes
- seeing rings around lights
- blurred vision
Visit an opticians or a GP if you have any concerns about your vision.
If you have glaucoma, early diagnosis and treatment can help stop your vision getting worse.
Without treatment, glaucoma can eventually lead to blindness.
If you develop symptoms of glaucoma suddenly, go to your nearest eye casualty unit or A&E as soon as possible.
This is a medical emergency that may require immediate treatment.
There are several different types of glaucoma.
The most common is called primary open angle glaucoma. This tends to develop slowly over many years.
It’s caused by the drainage channels in the eye becoming gradually clogged over time.
Other types of glaucoma include:
- acute angle closure glaucoma – an uncommon type caused by the drainage in the eye becoming suddenly blocked, which can raise the pressure inside the eye very quickly
- secondary glaucoma – caused by an underlying eye condition, such as inflammation of the eye (uveitis)
- childhood glaucoma (congenital glaucoma) – a rare type that occurs in very young children, caused by an abnormality of the eye
Glaucoma can occur for a number of reasons.
Most cases are caused by a build-up of pressure in the eye when fluid is unable to drain properly.
This increase in pressure then damages the nerve that connects the eye to the brain (optic nerve).
It’s often unclear why this happens, although certain things can increase the risk, including:
- your age – glaucoma becomes more common as you get older
- your ethnicity – people of African, Caribbean or Asian origin are at a higher risk
- your family history – you’re more likely to develop glaucoma if you have a parent or sibling with the condition
- other medical conditions – such as short-sightedness, long-sightedness and diabetes
It’s not clear whether you can do anything to prevent glaucoma, but having regular eye tests should pick it up as early as possible.
Can someone who is pregnant or breastfeeding use Duosopt Eye Drops?
Talk to your doctor before taking this medicine if you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant or are breast-feeding
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What is the price of Duosopt Eye Drops in Nigeria?
The price of Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops is N4,300
Where can you buy Duosopt Eye Drops In Nigeria?
You can Buy Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops at Asset Pharmacy Lagos Nigeria, Nigeria’s Largest Online Pharmacy.
Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops is a prescription drug that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.
To order this product you confirm that you are under the care of your doctor or consultant and have been given permission by them for purchase, fulfillment & use in treatment with their written consent.
You will be required to send Asset Pharmacy your prescription
How to Use
How to use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
Always use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops exactly as your doctor has told you. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. The appropriate dosage and duration of treatment will be established by your doctor.
The recommended dose is one drop in the affected eye(s) in the morning and in the evening.
If you are using Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops with another eye drop, the drops should be instilled at least 10 minutes apart.
Do not change the dose of the drug without consulting your doctor.
Do not allow the tip of the container to touch the eye or areas around the eye. It may become contaminated with bacteria that can cause eye infections leading to serious damage of the eye, even loss of vision. To avoid possible contamination of the container, wash your hands before using this medicine and keep the tip of the container away from contact with any surface.
If you think your medication may be contaminated, or if you develop an eye infection, contact your doctor immediately concerning continued use of this bottle.
Instructions for use
Always wash your hands before applying eye drops.
Apply your eye drops in the following way:
- Remove protective cap.
2. Tilt your head back and look at the ceiling.
3. Gently pull the lower eyelid down until there is a small pocket.
4. Squeeze the upturned dropper bottle to release a drop into your eye.
5. Whilst keeping the affected eye closed, press your finger against the corner of the closed eye (the side where the eye meets the nose) and hold for 2 minutes. This helps to stop timolol getting into the rest of the body.
Avoid touching the dropper tip against your eye or anything else.
Replace and tighten the cap straight after use.
If you use more Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops than you should
If you put too many drops in your eye or swallow any of the contents of the container, among other effects, you may become light-headed, have difficulty breathing, or feel that your heart rate has slowed. Contact your doctor immediately.
If you forget to use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
It is important to use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops as prescribed by your doctor.
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for the forgotten dose.
If you stop using Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
If you want to stop using this medicine talk to your doctor first.
If you have any further questions on the use of this product, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
Product Details
Product Information of Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU USE DUOSOPT EYE DROPS – DORZOLAMIDE TIMOLOL EYE DROPS
Do not use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
- if you are allergic (hypersensitive) to dorzolamide hydrochloride, timolol maleate or any of the other ingredients of Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops (listed in section 6).
- if you have now or had in the past respiratory problems, such as asthma or severe chronic obstructive bronchitis (severe lung disease which may cause wheeziness, difficulty in breathing and/or long-standing cough)
- if you have a slow heart beat, heart failure or disorders of heart rhythm (irregular heart beats)
- if you have severe kidney disease or problems, or a prior history of kidney stones
- if you have excess acidity of the blood caused by a build up of chloride in the blood (hyperchloremic acidosis).
If you are not sure whether you should use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
Warnings and precautions:
Tell your doctor about any of the following medical or eye problems you have now or have had in the past:
- coronary heart disease (symptoms can include chest pain or tightness, breathlessness or choking), heart failure, low blood pressure
- disturbances of heart rate such as slow heart beat
- breathing problems, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- poor blood circulation disease (such as Raynaud’s disease or Raynaud’s syndrome)
- diabetes as timolol may mask signs and symptoms of low blood sugar
- overactivity of the thyroid gland as timolol may mask signs and symptoms
Also tell your doctor:
- before you have an operation that you are using Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops as timolol may change effects of some medicines used during anaesthesia
- if you have muscle weakness or have been diagnosed as having myasthenia gravis
- if you develop any eye irritation or any new eye problems such as redness of the eye or swelling of the eyelids, contact your doctor immediately
- if you develop an eye infection, receive an eye injury, have eye surgery, or develop a reaction including new or worsening symptoms.
When Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops is instilled into the eye it may affect the entire body.
Children and adolescents
There is limited experience with Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops in infants and children.
Use in elderly
In studies with Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops, the effects of Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops were similar in both elderly and younger patients.
Use in patients with liver impairment
Tell your doctor about any liver problems you now have or have suffered from in the past.
Other medicines and Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops can affect or be affected by other medicines you are using, including other eye drops for the treatment of glaucoma. Tell your doctor if you are using or intend to use medicines to lower blood pressure, heart medicine or medicines to treat diabetes. Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription.
This is particularly important if you are:
- taking medicine to lower blood pressure or to treat heart disease (such as calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers or digoxin)
- taking medicines to treat a disturbed or irregular heartbeat such as calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers or digoxin
- using another eyedrop that contains a beta-blocker
- taking another carbonic anhydrase inhibitor such as acetazolamide
- taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) which are used to treat depression
- taking a parasympathomimetic medicine which may have been prescribed to help you pass urine. Parasympathomimetics are also a particular type of medicine which is sometimes used to help restore normal movements through the bowel.
- taking narcotics such as morphine used to treat moderate to severe pain
- taking medicines to treat diabetes
- taking antidepressant known as fluoxetine and paroxetine
- taking a sulfa medicine
- taking quinidine (used to treat heart conditions and some types of malaria).
Pregnancy, breast-feeding and fertility
Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking any medicine.
Use in pregnancy
Do not use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops if you are pregnant unless your doctor considers it necessary.
Use in breast-feeding
Do not use Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops if you are breast-feeding. Timolol may get into your milk. Ask your doctor for advice before taking any medicine during breast-feeding.
Driving and using machines
No studies on the effects on the ability to drive or use machines have been performed. There are side effects associated with Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops, such as blurred vision, which may affect your ability to drive and/ or operate machinery. Do not drive or operate machinery until you feel well or your vision is clear.
Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops contains benzalkonium chloride
This medicine contains 0.003 mg benzalkonium chloride in each drop which is equivalent to 0.075 mg/ml. Benzalkonium chloride may be absorbed by soft contact lenses and may change the colour of the contact lenses. You should remove contact lenses before using this medicine and put them back 15 minutes afterwards. Benzalkonium chloride may also cause eye irritation, especially if you have dry eyes or disorders of the cornea (the clear layer at the front of the eye). If you feel abnormal eye sensation, stinging or pain in the eye after using this medicine, talk to your doctor.
Side Effects
Side Effects of Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS
Like all medicines, Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
You can usually carry on taking the drops, unless the effects are serious. If you’re worried, talk to a doctor or pharmacist. Do not stop using Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops without speaking to your doctor.
Serious side effects
If you develop generalized allergic reactions including swelling beneath the skin that can occur in areas such as the face and limbs, and can obstruct the airway which may cause difficulty swallowing or breathing, hives or itchy rash, localized and generalized rash, itchiness or a severe sudden life-threatening allergic reaction, you should stop using Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops and seek medical advice immediately.
The frequency of possible side effects listed below is defined using the following convention:
Very common (affects more than 1 user in 10)
Common (affects 1 to 10 users in 100)
Uncommon (affects 1 to 10 users in 1,000)
Rare (affects 1 to 10 users in 10,000)
Not known (frequency cannot be estimated from the available data)
The following adverse reactions have been reported with Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops eye drops or one of its components either during clinical trials or during post marketing experience:
Very common
Burning and stinging of the eyes, taste perversion.
Common
Redness in and around the eye(s), watering or itching of the eye(s), corneal erosion (damage to the front layer of the eyeball), swelling and/ or irritation in and around the eye(s), feeling of having something in the eye, decreased corneal sensitivity (not realising of getting something in the eye and not feeling pain), eye pain, dry eyes, blurred vision, headache, sinusitis (feeling of tension or fullness in the nose), weakness/tiredness, and fatigue.
Uncommon
Dizziness, depression, inflammation of the iris, visual disturbances including refractive changes (due to withdrawal of miotic therapy in some cases), slow heartbeat, fainting, difficulty breathing (dyspnoea), indigestion, and kidney stones.
Rare
Systemic lupus erythematosus (an immune disease which may cause an inflammation of internal organs), tingling or numbness of the hands or feet, trouble sleeping, nightmares, memory loss, an increase in signs and symptoms of myasthenia gravis (muscle disorder), decreased sex drive, stroke, temporary short sightedness which may resolve when treatment is stopped, detachment of the layer below the retina that contains blood vessels following from filtration surgery which may cause visual disturbances drooping of the eyelids, double vision, eyelid crusting, swelling of the cornea (with symptoms of visual disturbances), low pressure in the eye, ringing noises in your ear, low blood pressure, changes in the rhythm or speed of the heartbeat, congestive heart failure (heart disease with shortness of breath and swelling of feet and legs due to fluid build up), oedema (fluid build up), cerebral ischaemia (reduced blood supply to the brain), chest pain, forceful heartbeat that may be rapid or irregular (palpitations), heart attack, Raynaud’s phenomenon, swelling or coldness of your hands and feet and reduced circulation in your arms and legs, leg cramps and/or leg pain when walking (claudication), shortness of breath, impaired lung function, runny or stuffed nose, nose bleed, constriction of the airways in the lungs, cough, throat irritation, dry mouth, diarrhoea, contact dermatitis, hair loss, skin rash with white silvery coloured appearance (psoriasiform rash) , Peyronie’s disease (which may cause a curvature of the penis), allergic type reactions such as rash, hives, itching, in rare cases possible swelling of the lips, eyes and mouth, wheezing, or severe skin reactions (Steven Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis).
Like other medicines applied into eyes, timolol maleate is absorbed into the blood. This may cause similar side effects as seen with oral beta-blocking agents. Incidence of side effects after topical ophthalmic administration is lower than when medicines are, for example, taken by mouth or injected. Listed additional side effects include reactions seen within the class of beta-blockers when used for treating eye conditions:
Not known
Low blood glucose levels, heart failure, a type of heart rhythm disorder, abdominal pain, vomiting, muscle pain not caused by exercise, sexual dysfunction, shortness of breath, foreign body sensation in eye (feeling that there is something in your eye), hallucinations.
Reporting of side effects
If you get any side effects talk your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet.
How to store
How to store Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops
Keep out of the reach and sight of children.
Do not use this medicine after the date shown by the six digits following EX (or EXP) on the container and on the carton. The first two digits indicate the month; the last four digits indicate the year. The expiry date refers to the last day of that month.
This medicinal product does not require any special temperature storage conditions. Keep the bottle in the outer carton in order to protect from light.
Discard Duosopt Eye Drops – Dorzolamide Timolol Eye Drops 28 days after first opening.
Do not throw away any medicines via wastewater or household waste. Ask your pharmacist how to throw away medicines you no longer use. These measures will help to protect the environment.
Prescription Product
This product requires a prescription from your Doctor.
Please follow the instruction received from the pharmacy on how to forward your prescription to the pharmacy after you have paid for the medicine.
A prescription drug is a pharmaceutical medication that legally requires a medical prescription to be dispensed.
To order this product you confirm that you are under the care of your doctor or consultant and have been given permission by them for purchase, fulfillment & use in treatment with their written consent
Delivery
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