The Eye Care Blog

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds that a single dose of the oral antibiotic azithromycin taken after trichiasis eye surgery can reduce the frequency with which eyelashes turn back in and abrade the eye.

The oral antibiotic treatment is more effective than multiple days of treatment with the topical antibiotic ointment Tetracycline, the current method of treatment after trichiasis surgery.

Trichiasis can be corrected by appropriate lid surgery, which returns the inturned eyelashes to their normal position. However, even under the best of circumstances the eyelashes may turn back in (between 16 percent and 50 percent within a few years after surgery). That's why this new Johns Hopkins research is so valuable, says lead researcher Sheila West, Ph.D., of the Dana Center for Preventative Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In the current study, less than 10 percent of people had their eyelid turn in again within one year after surgery.

Link

Filed under Eye Treatment |

You may also like to read

• Tea Tree Oil Cures Eye Infection in Texas
• Antibiotics Alone No Match for Blinding Eye Infection Trachoma
• Age Related Macular Degeneration May be Prevented with Macugen
• LASIK Induced Keratectasia Progression Prevented by Riboflavin and Ultraviolet-A Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking: Study
• Dry Eye Syndrome in Women May be Prevented by Regulating Fatty Acid Intake
• Corneal Transplant: Stem Cells Bring Cures Blindness in India by Creating Cornea
• Innovative Indian Eye Surgery Network Wins $1 Million Gate Award
• Advanced Lasik Surgery On Astronauts Got NASA Approval

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 at 9:30 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.