What are some of the new medications used to reduce the fluid in the eye and eliminate the side effects, such as blurred vision, caused by glaucoma drugs?
Blurred vision from glaucoma drugs is caused primarily by miotics (pilocarpine and carbachol). The blurred vision occurs primarily in younger people who are still capable of accommodation (refocusing from distance to near) and in older people with cataracts. The blurred vision is due partly to constriction of the pupil (miosis) and induced accommodation, which makes the eye more nearsighted. Pilocarpine ocuserts, a tiny disc impregnated with pilocarpine and worn under the eyelid for several days at a time, produces a steady flow of the drug with minimal side effects.
