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High Eye Pressure and Families
High eye pressure runs in families. Share this information with someone you care about.
High eye pressure and glaucoma are partly inherited. If you have it, it is more likely your children, brothers, and sisters have it, too. Therefore, it’s important for them to have their eyes tested.
Encourage them to set up an appointment with their doctor, and take the tracker with them. You can download additional eye pressure trackers for your family members. Click here for an Eye Pressure and Usage Tracker for you to pass along to your loved ones.
Suggest that your loved ones talk to their eye doctor about high eye pressure. The following questions may help start the conversation:
- My family member has high eye pressure. Am I at risk for high eye pressure?
- Is my eye pressure high?
- Would a medication like XALATAN be beneficial to patients with high eye pressure?
- What are the risks of not treating my high eye pressure?
- What are the potential risks of taking XALATAN?
We want you to feel good about yourself for taking care of your vision—and now you can feel good about helping others, too.
For more important questions your loved ones can ask a doctor, complete the Appointment Questionnaire and have them bring it to their next appointment.
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Indication
XALATAN is for the treatment of high eye pressure/intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
Important Safety Information
Like all medicines, XALATAN can have side effects. These side effects are usually mild and tolerable and may include blurred vision, burning and stinging, eye redness, the feeling of something in the eye, eye itching, increased pigmentation (darkening) of eye color, or irritation of the clear front surface of the eye.
XALATAN may slowly cause darkening of the eye color due to increased brown color, darkening of the eyelid and eyelashes, and increased growth and thickness of eyelashes. Color changes can increase as long as XALATAN is administered and eye color changes are likely to be permanent.
There have been reports of bacterial keratitis associated with the use of multiple-dose containers of topical ophthalmic products.
The recommended dosage is one drop (1.5 µg) in the affected eye(s) once daily in the evening. If one dose is missed, treatment should continue with the next dose as normal.
Please see full prescribing information for XALATAN (latanoprost ophthalmic solution).
The product information provided in this site is intended only for residents of the United States. The products discussed herein may have different product labeling in different countries.
The health information contained herein is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace discussions with a health care provider. All decisions regarding patient care must be made with a health care provider, considering the unique characteristics of the patient.
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