Dubai, United Arab Emirates – A recent study revealed that eye drops may save people with presbyopia from wearing medical lenses and glasses.
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The results of the study proved that eye drops can provide a safe and effective treatment for people who want to get rid of wearing lenses and glasses.
Presbyopia affects individuals when the lens of the eye becomes less flexible.
This condition is common in people in their forties and older, as they have difficulty seeing up close and need to move texts away to read them clearly.
Doctors recommend wearing glasses to solve this problem, according to the British newspaper “The Telegraph”.
But experts from Argentina used eye drops to treat people with this condition.
The drops contain pilocarpine, which constricts the pupil and causes contractions in the muscle responsible for controlling the shape of the lens.
This allows shapes to be seen from different distances well.
The drop solution also contained the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac.
The study was conducted on 766 people, who used the drops twice a day, the first upon waking up, and the second after 6 hours.
Participants were divided into three groups, all of whom received a fixed dose of diclofenac.
While the concentration of pilocarpine varied between 1 percent and 3 percent.
After the experiment, the researchers measured the participants’ vision using the Geiger scale used to measure near visual acuity.
The researchers revealed that 148 participants from the group that received drops of pilocarpine at a concentration of 1% were able to read two or more lines.
While 69 percent of the second group, which received a concentration of 2 percent, were able to read three or more additional lines.
The third group, which received a concentration of 3 percent, 84 percent of participants were able to read 3 or more additional lines.
side effect
The results of the study, which was presented at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery conference in Denmark, revealed that vision improvement continued for two years, with the most common side effects being temporary poor vision, irritability, and headache.
But Professor Burkhard Dick, from the University Eye Hospital in Bochum, Germany, explained that prolonged use of pilocarpine may affect the eye’s ability to see at night and in low light.
It may also cause eye strain, irritation, and retinal detachment in rare cases.
