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Taking Your Eyedrop Medication


Description

The How to Take Your Eye Medication fact sheet details a technique called nasolacrimal occlusion (NLO) that was designed to reduce the amount of medication that enters the body through the tear ducts, therefore reducing medication side effects. The fact sheet contains illustrations to demonstrate how to correctly use the NLO technique.
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This tool is available at: http://diabetes.preventblindness.org/sites/default/files/NC_MK17_EyeDrop_08-039.pdf (If you don't have the software to open this PDF, download free Adobe Acrobat Reader® software External Web Site Policy.)

Developer

Prevent Blindness America

Funding Sources

Prevent Blindness America


QualityTool Topic

Patient/Medication safety; Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Release Date: 01/2005
  • Original Summary: 10/2007
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Last updated: April 18, 2012.