Apimol 0.5% Eye Drop 5 ml

Timolol maleate 0.5% Eye drops solutionWhat Timolol maleate is used for:

• • Timolol maleate is used for patients with glaucoma (increased pressure in the eye that can lead to loss of vision) to reduce eye pressure.

Do not use Timolol maleate:

• • If you are allergic to Timolol maleate or other beta-blockers or any of the ingredients in this medicine.

• • Tell your doctor about the allergy and what signs you had.

• • If you currently have or have previously had respiratory problems such as asthma or severe chronic obstructive bronchitis (severe lung problem that may cause difficulty in breathing and wheeziness).

• • If you have heart problems including abnormal heart rhythms, slow heartbeat, heart failure (inability of your heart muscle to pump blood properly) or cardiogenic shock (a serious heart problem due to very low blood pressure, which may lead to symptoms like white skin, dizziness, fast heart rate, lightheadedness, restlessness, sweating and loss of consciousness).

How to apply Timolol maleate:
Adults

• • The usual recommended dose is one drop in the affected eye twice daily (one drop in the morning and one drop at night).

• • Use as prescribed by your doctor.

Children and Adolescents:

• • This medicine should generally be used with caution in young patients. Use as prescribed by your doctor.

• • Before you or your child starts to use this medicine, your doctor or your child’s doctor should do a thorough medical examination to determine if you can take this medicine or not.

• • You or your child should be closely and carefully monitored for one to two hours after applying the first dose until surgery is carried out.

Newborns, infants and younger children:

• • This medicine should be used with extreme caution in newborns, infants and younger children.

• • Stop giving this medicine to your child or baby and talk to the doctor immediately if wheezing, coughing, abnormal breathing or abnormal pauses in breathing happen.

• • Your doctor may recommend a portable apnea (difficulty breathing) monitor.

• • Your child or baby should be closely and carefully monitored for one to two hours after applying the first dose until surgery is carried out.

How To Use:

• • Use this medicine exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Ask your doctor if you are not sure.

• • Your doctor will determine the number of drops that you need to apply, when to apply them and for how long you should use the medicine.

• • Wash your hands. When opening the bottle for the first time, tear off the plastic safety strip.

• • Uncap the bottle. Tilt your head slightly backward and pull down your lower eyelid making a pocket.

• • Keep the bottle above your eye with the tip facing down.

• • Look upward and away from the bottle then press on the container to release a drop.

• • Let go of the lower eyelid and close your eyes for 2 minutes or as long as possible in babies and children (e.g. 3 – 5 minutes).

• • If an eye drop is missed, repeat the steps. Wipe off any excess drops from your cheeks.

• • Repeat the same steps after opening the bottle for the other eye if needed.

• • Space your eye drops by at least 5 minutes.

• • Use at the same time every day.

• • Do not stop using your medication without consulting your doctor.

• • Do not use the eye drop if the tamper-proof seal on the bottle neck is broken when you are using it for the first time.

• • Avoid contact of the eye drop tip with your eye or other surfaces to prevent bacterial contamination which may lead to eye infection and serious eye damage.

• • Contact your doctor if you suspect that your eye drop is contaminated.

How to store Timolol maleate:

• • Discard the bottle 28 days after its opening even if it is not empty.

• • Keep out of the reach of children and pets.

• • Do not store above 25°C.

• • Do not use beyond the expiry date mentioned on the box.

• • Keep away from light.

• • Do not dispose in the wastewater or household waste.

• Ask your pharmacist how to properly dispose medicines that you no longer use.