Country: Malta
Language: English
Source: Medicines Authority
OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE
Bausch Health Ireland Limited 3013 Lake Drive, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, D24PPT3, Ireland
S01HA02
OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE
EYE DROPS, SOLUTION
OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE 0.4 percent weight/volume
POM
OPHTHALMOLOGICALS
Authorised
2005-10-04
76850 P1UKIE01_76850_Minims-Oxybuprocaine_Hydrochloride04_SOL20SDU_UK_IE_v1.indd 1 2014-09-02 11:07:56 BAUSCH&LOMB MINIMS® OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE 0.4% W/V EYE DROPS, SOLUTION OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE Read all this leaflet carefully BEFORE you start using your medicine. It contains a summary of the information available on your medicine. If you have any questions or are not sure about anything, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Remember this medicine is for you. Do not give it to someone else. IN THIS LEAFLET: 1. What Minims® Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride eye drops are and what they are used for 2. Before you use your eye drops 3. How to use your eye drops 4. Possible side effects 5. How to store your eye drops 6. Further information 1. WHAT MINIMS® OXYBUPROCAINE HYDROCHLORIDE EYE DROPS ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR Minims® Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride contains an anaesthetic. It is used to numb the surface of the eye temporarily. Your doctor or eye specialist will use it: • to examine your eye without it being painful, • to measure the pressure inside your eye, • to perform minor operations such as the removal of stitches and foreign bodies, • for the fitting of contact lenses. This medicine is indicated for children, adults and the elderly. 2. BEFORE YOU USE YOUR EYE DROPS DO NOT USE THESE DROPS IF • you are allergic to the active substance (oxybuprocaine hydrochloride) or any of the other ingredients (refer to the end of this leaflet). • you are using at the same time as Minims® Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride other eye drops containing chlorhexidine acetate as a preservative. TAKE SPECIAL CARE • If you have had an allergic reaction to other local anaesthetics in the past. Inform your doctor or eye specialist. • When your eye has been numbed it is important not to rub it and to keep it free of dust and bacterial contamination. Your doctor or eye specialist will make sure that your eye is properly protected. • If you have an inflamed eye, as red eyes greatly increase the passage into the bl Read the complete document
SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS 1 NAME OF THE MEDICINAL PRODUCT Minims Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride 0.4% w/v Eye Drops Solution 2 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION Contains Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride Ph. Eur. 0.4 % w/v. Each unit (0.5ml) contains Oxybuprocaine Hydrochloride 2mg For a full list of excipients, see section 6.1. 3 PHARMACEUTICAL FORM Eye drops, solution Clear, colourless, aqueous, sterile single use eye drop solution. 4 CLINICAL PARTICULARS 4.1 THERAPEUTIC INDICATIONS As a sterile, single use eye drop for use as an anaesthetic prior to tonometry, contact lens fitting, foreign body removal and meibomian cyst incision. The drops should be instilled topically into the conjunctival sac. 4.2 POSOLOGY AND METHOD OF ADMINISTRATION Adults and Children: One drop is sufficient to anaesthetise the surface of the eye to allow tonometry after one minute. A further drop after 90 seconds will provide adequate anaesthesia for the fitting of contact lenses. Three drops at 90 second intervals provides sufficient anaesthesia for a foreign body to be removed from the corneal epithelium or for incision of a meibomian cyst through the conjunctiva. Corneal sensitivity is normal again after about one hour. Each Minims unit should be discarded after use. 4.3 CONTRAINDICATIONS Known hypersensitivity to oxybuprocaine. 4.4 SPECIAL WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS FOR USE Transient stinging and blurring of vision may occur on instillation. The anaesthetised eye should be protected from dust and bacterial contamination. The cornea may be damaged by prolonged application of anaesthetic eye drops. Systemic absorption may be reduced by compressing the lacrimal sac at the medial canthus for a minute during and following the instillation of the drops. (This blocks the passage of the drops via the naso lacrimal duct to the wide absorptive area of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa. It is especially advisable in children). Use with caution on an inflamed eye, as hyperaemia greatly increases the rate of systemic absorption through the con Read the complete document