Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%

✔️ Uses of

• Used to treat bacterial conjunctivitis and other eye infections

✔️ How to use Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%

• Eye Drops are for external use only.
• Take Eye Drops in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor.
• Check the label for directions before use.
• Hold the dropper close to the eye without touching it.
• Gently squeeze the dropper and place the medicine inside the lower eyelid.
• Wipe off extra liquid.

✔️ How Optimox Eye Drops works

Optimox Eye Drops is an antibiotic. It treats bacterial eye infections by preventing the bacteria from dividing and repairing. It does so by stopping the action of a bacterial enzyme called DNA-gyrase.

✔️ What if you forget to take Optimox Eye Drops?

• If you miss a dose of Optimox, take it as soon as possible.
• However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular schedule.
• Do not double the dose.

✔️ Side effects of Optimox Eye Drops:

• Vomiting
• Dryness, itchiness, and redness of the eye
• Abnormal eye sensation, swelling
• Headache
• Nose discomfort
• Bad taste
• Corneal disorder
• Blurred or reduced vision
• Eye surface inflammation
• Inflammation or infection of the conjunctiva
• Eye strain or swelling

✔️ Quick Suggestions:

• For the treatment of bacterial eye infections, your doctor has recommended Optimox.
• Even if you feel better, do not miss any doses of Optimox Eye Drops and complete the whole course of therapy.
• After applying the Optimox Eye Drops, push firmly for approximately a minute on the corner of the eye (near the nostril).
• To prevent contamination, avoid touching the tip of your eyes or any other surfaces.
• To prevent dilution, wait for at least 5 to 10 minutes before administering the following drug into the same eye.
• Initially using Optimox Eye Drops might result in temporary eyesight blurriness.
• Before operating machinery or driving, exercise caution.
• Until your illness has cleared up, avoid using contact lenses.
• Make careful to utilize Optimox Eye Drops within 4 weeks of the opening the cap.

✔️ Indications of Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%

An antibiotic called Optimox is used to treat bacterial infections of the eyes. Preventing the spread of harmful microorganisms reduces the infection's symptoms. Only external users should use Optimox. As directed by your doctor, take it for the prescribed amount of time.

✔️ Pharmacology

Moxifloxacin is a fluoroquinolone-based, broad-spectrum antibacterial drug that was developed in the fourth century. In addition to Mycoplasma pneumonia, it has been effective against a broad range of gram-positive, gram-negative, anaerobic, and atypical microbes. Topoisomerase II (DNA gyrase) and topoisomerase IV, which are essential for bacterial DNA replication, translation, and repair, are repressed as part of their action.

✔️ Dosage of Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%

Adults Dose:

Bacterial conjunctivitis of the eyes in adults: 

• Apply 1 drop of 0.5% soln to the affected eye(s) every day for 7 days. It can be used simultaneously with artificial tears as long as there is a 15-minute gap between the two products.

Infant Dose:

Ophthalmic Bacterial Conjunctivitis Child:

• >1 yr: Tip 1 drop daily for 7 days into the affected eye(s).

✔️ Administration of Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%

• After administering Optimox Eye Drops 0.5%, press firmly for about a minute on the corner of the eye (near the nostril).
• To prevent contamination, avoid touching the tip of your eyes or any other surfaces.
• To prevent dilution, wait for at least 5 to 10 minutes before administering the following medication into the same eye.
• Initially using Optimox Eye Drops 0.5% could result in temporary vision blurriness. Before operating machinery or driving, exercise caution.
• Until your infection has cleared up, avoid wearing contact lenses.
  Make sure to use the medication within 4 weeks of opening it.

✔️ Interaction

Utilizing stomach-settling agents, sucralfate, multivitamins, and multivalent cations reduces moxifloxacin retention (e.g., press or zinc). The risk of shaking with NSAIDs and dying from warfarin may increase when taking moxifloxacin. Therefore, using Moxifloxacin concurrently with them should be avoided.

✔️ Contraindications

It is contraindicated in patients with a history of touchiness to Moxifloxacin or other quinolones.

✔️ Pregnancy & Lactation

• Moxifloxacin Hydrochloride Ophthalmic Solution should only be used during pregnancy if the potential benefit outweighs the risk to the fetus due to the lack of adequate and well-controlled trials in pregnant women. Despite not having been found, moxifloxacin is believed to be excreted in human milk.
• Use caution when giving a nursing mother Moxifloxacin hydrochloride ophthalmic solution.

✔️ Precautions & Warnings

• Taking Moxifloxacin may increase your risk of developing tendinitis and breaking a ligament.
• Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or to quinolone antibiotics
• If a ligament experiences pain or irritability, it should be stopped.
• It shouldn't be used in patients with known QT prolongation, untreated hypokalemia, or those who are accepting of Lesson IA or Lesson III antiarrhythmic operators.

✔️ Storage Conditions

• Keep it below 25°C.
• Store in a cold, dry, and light-protected location.
• Keep out of children's reach.
• Do not touch the dropper tip to any surface, as this could contaminate the mixture.
• After one month from the date of initial opening, do not use.