COMBIGAN

Combigan Information

Combigan (also known as Brimonidine) is an alpha-blocker which is helpful in reducing the quantity of fluid from the eye. By reducing the quantity of liquid it also decreases the intra-ocular pressure.

Combigan Indications

Combigan is usually prescribed in the patients who are suffering from glaucoma or from ocular hypertension (meaning that the intra ocular pressure is very high). This medication may also be used to treat other medical conditions, but only with the consent of your doctor or personal healthcare provider.

Combigan Warnings

Patients should inform their doctor before beginning the treatment with Combigan if they are suffering from asthma, heart disease, heart failure, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, slow heart beats, diabetes, depression, circulation problems or overactive thyroid.

Patients are not recommended to use Combigan if they have used an MAO inhibitor like Nardil, Azilext or Parnate within the past two weeks. Patients should not use this medicine if they are allergic to Brimonidine and Timolol.

Pregnant women or women who are planning to become pregnant should not use this medicine without discussing it first with their doctor or personal healthcare provider. This medicine passes into breast milk; this is why it is important to inform your doctor if you are breast feeding.

Combigan Intake Guidelines

Patients should use this medicine as the doctor prescribed them. They should not use bigger or smaller quantities than the recommended ones. It is best if the patients wash their hands very well before using these eye drops and do not use Combigan when they have their contact lenses on. This medicine contains a preservative which is absorbed by the soft contact lenses. Patients should wait at least 20 minutes after using Combigan before putting their contact lenses in again.

In order to apply the eye drops, the patients must tilt their head back and pull down the lower eyelid. Patients should hold the dropper above the eye and the dropper tip down in order to squeeze the drop exactly into their eye. Patients who are using more than one eye medical product should wait at least 10 minutes after using Combigan, before using the other drugs.

Patients should be careful not to touch the dropper tip to any surface (eyes, hands, furniture) because the dropper tip will become contaminated and could lead to serious eye infections which can evolve to vision loss or serious eye damage. Patients are recommended not to use the product if it has changed its color.

Combigan Dosage

Patients should ask their personal healthcare provider exactly how to use every dose of Combigan, in order to obtain the best results during the treatment. Patients should not forget the doctor’s indications and should not deviate from them under any circumstances. In the majority of the cases the dose which is recommended is one drop applied in the affected eye or in both eyes twice a day at twelve hours apart. If patients are using more ophthalmic products, they should use them at a difference of about 10 minutes.

Combigan Overdose

Patients who believe that they have been taking an overdose of Combigan or if somebody accidentally ingested it, they should immediately announce their personal healthcare provider or pharmacist. The symptoms of an overdose of Combigan include: dizziness, headaches, breathing problems, bradycardia, bronchospasm, and cardiac arrest, faintness. Depending on how serious the symptoms are, the doctor could recommend the patients to remain in the hospital for supportive care and symptomatic treatment.

Combigan Missed Dose

Patients should remember that it is very important to take each dose of Combigan according to the schedule. In the case in which a patient forgets to take one dose he can take it as soon as he recalls, but if it is time for the next one, he should forget about the missed dose and continue with the normal schedule.

Patients are not recommended to use double doses of Combigan, unless their doctor, pharmacist or personal health care provider advised them to do so. 

Combigan Side Effects

It is well known that any medicine has its side effects which some of the people experience during the treatment, and some do not.  Patients should immediately announce their doctor if they experience any of the following side effects: hives, breathing difficulties, severe swelling, itching, burning, redness, eye pain and discomfort, bronchospasm, slow heart rate, numbness and muscle weakness.

Patients should not announce their doctor if they are experiencing: mild burning, stinging and itching of the eyes, dry eyes, blurred vision, weakness, tiredness, cough, sore throat, nausea, sensitivity to light and headaches, unless these side effects get worse and are persistent.

Other possible side effects which the patients may experience during the treatment with Combigan can include: bronchitis, cataract, conjunctival edema and hemorrhage, conjunctivitis, dyspepsia, dyspnea, follicular conjunctivitis and hypercholesterolemia.

This is not a complete list with all the side effects which the patients can experience during the treatment with Combigan. For further information, patients should ask their doctor, pharmacist or personal healthcare provider or consult the product’s label.

Combigan Drug Reactions

Patients should not use Combigan if they are using any of these medicines: antidepressants, blood pressure medications, digitals (such as Tagamet, Digoxin), HIV or AIDS medicines (such as Norvir), antihistamines (like Benadryl), antifungal antibiotics, and anti-malaria drugs.

Patients should inform their doctor if they are taking calcium channel blockers (such as Norvasc, Calan, Covera) and other beta blockers (like Tenormin, Toprol, Inderal) because they can interfere in the treatment with Combigan, or they can make it less effective.

This is not a complete list of the medications with which Combigan interferes, your doctor or personal healthcare provider can tell you more. Patients should not start a new treatment with any medical product, without discussing it first with their doctor.

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