maxitrol eye drops
maxitrol eye drops
Do these eye drops contain steroids? Please somebody help.?
My husband and I are travelling on an adventure holiday in the remote parts of Brazil. Both of us seem to have picked up some sort of eye infection. There is no doctor around but a small one room pharmacy sold us the following medicines. Apparently here you dont need a prescription to buy anything. They are the following eye drops.
Maxitrol – containing dexametasone, neomycin sulphate and polimycin B sulpate,
Claroft- containing nafazolina cloridrato
Trisorb – containing dextrana, hipromelose, glicerol.
Some of the names are the portuguese version. The problem is both my husband and I are borderline glaucoma and were warned by our own ophthalmologist never to indiscriminately use eye drops as they might contain steroids that could drive up the eye pressure. We dont know if these drops contain steroids and we have no doctor to ask here. Please if anyone can comment we would be grateful.
Dear kind samaritans. Thank you for answering within the hour. I cant thank you all enough.
Avoid Maxitrol! that’s the only one that contains steroid: Dexamethasone.
Clearoft is to treat irritations caused by smog and air pollution and Trisorb an artificial tear. And none of the three is to treat an eye infection (especially Maxitrol should be avoided during eye infections)
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