Can your eye drops be used by others?
Many people have had dry eyes and always feel that it is no big deal, so it is easy to use eye drops at will.
However, if our eyes have abnormal symptoms, such as conjunctivitis, we still need a professional ophthalmologist to make a judgment and prescribe eye drops.
However, in the process of using eye drops, there are 4 common misunderstandings, and you’d better know them in advance.
Myth 1: Give your own eye drops to others
Sometimes, people around us also have conjunctivitis, just because they still have a lot of eye drops left, so they want to continue using them.
However, even conjunctivitis is also divided into allergy, infection (bacteria, viruses) and chemistry. Eye drops should be selected according to different types to cure the disease. In the absence of a clear cause of the disease, misuse of eye drops may even aggravate the disease.
In addition, cross infection will also make the disease more serious.
Therefore, the eye drops you use must not be used by others, nor should you use other people’s eye drops.
Myth 2: Insufficient Use of Eye Drops
Some people saw a doctor and confirmed that it was infectious conjunctivitis. They went home and dropped eye drops for two days. Their eyes felt much more comfortable, so they wanted to be lazy and stopped dropping.
However, eye drops, like other drugs, must be dripped in accordance with the doctor’s advice for a sufficient course of treatment in order to be completely treated and reduce the recurrence rate.
If you stop taking drugs casually, then you will run to the hospital over and over again and drop liquid medicine, which will not only get better slower, but also easily increase the risk of drug resistance.
Therefore, we must follow the doctor’s advice and take medicine according to the course of treatment. The improvement of symptoms only indicates that the eye drops are taking effect and should be happy, but this does not mean that they have been completely cured, and the full course of treatment should be used when necessary.
Myth 3: Children Can Use Adults’ Eye Drops,
Some mothers will feel that they used this eye drop before and the effect is good, so when the child has the same symptoms, they will buy the same eye drop for the child.
However, children’s body organs are not mature and should be more cautious than adults in the process of medication.
For example, tobramycin eye drops and levofloxacin eye drops are not recommended for children under 1 year old although no taboos for infants are mentioned.
If the child really has conjunctivitis symptoms, it is better to go to the hospital as soon as possible. Only in this way can the child recover as soon as possible and avoid the possible adverse effects of drugs on the child.
Myth 4: Eye drops can be used before their shelf life expires,
Sometimes the disease has been cured, but the eye drops have not been dropped out. Some people think it is a pity to throw them away, so they think about putting them away. They have not expired anyway, and they can still use them when their eyes are uncomfortable next time.
In fact, eye drops are easy to deteriorate and breed bacteria after opening. They should be used as soon as possible after opening. If they are not used up for one month, they should be discarded.
To sum up, eyes are uncomfortable, to find out the cause of the disease and suit the remedy to the case, also should pay attention to the use of matters, especially pay attention to the validity period and opening time of eye drops. Standardized use of eye drops can restore bright eyes as soon as possible.