treatment
What are the precautions to be taken after surgery?
- Use the eye drops and medicines as prescribed
- Avoid rubbing or squeezing your eye
- Protection: As advised by your doctor, you may
wear the protective eye shield at night for first week. Dark
eyeglasses may be worn during the daytime, especially outdoors, to
avoid any discomfort that you may have from bright light and also to
prevent any injury to eye.
- Face wash: For the first few days, avoid
splashing water directly into the eye. You may use a clean, soft,
wet towel to wipe your face.
- Shaving: Shaving of the beard is permitted
after the operation.
- Bathing: Body bath (below the neck) may be
resumed after the first day, but avoid taking a shower or a bath in
the bathtub for the first week after surgery.
- Head bath: One may wash the hair with the head
tilted backwards to avoid any water splashing into the eye.
- Games: Normal daily activities including
walking, reading and watching television may be resumed soon after
the operation. However avoid strenuous activities like jogging,
lifting weights, swimming, gardening, aerobics, contact sports etc.
for 1-2 months.
- Sex: You can resume your sex life a week or two
after the operation after consulting your doctor.
- Makeup: Avoid eye makeup for 6 weeks.
- Diet: There are no dietary restrictions and you
may take your routine diet. However, the restrictions as per you
pre-existing medical problems, if any, are to continue. Avoid
constipation by taking high fiber diet and plenty of fluids.
- Driving: Avoid driving unless the surgeon
permits you.
- Job: You may get back to your job in 1-4 weeks
after surgery depending on your profession. Ask your surgeon about
this.
- Normal symptoms: The following symptoms are
normal and are not a cause for alarm. These are slight redness, mild
watering, mild irritation, glare and slight drooping of upper
eyelid. These will remain to some extent for 6-8 weeks.
- Alarming symptoms: In case of any pain, injury,
decrease in vision or flashes of light in the operated eye, contact
your surgeon immediately.
- Wash hands
- Tilt your head back and look at the ceiling
- Gently pull the lower eyelid down until it forms a small pocket,
or pouch.
- Squeeze the bottle or the dropper to release a single drop into
the eye. Take care not to touch the eye or eyelid with the nozzle of
the bottle.
- Release the lower lid and close eyelid for 30 seconds. Dab excess with tissue.
Special precautions:
- In order to keep the eyedrops clean:
- do not allow the nozzle to touch the eye or anything else
- do not allow other people to use your eyedrops
- replace the cap of the eyedrops immediately after use
- discard the eyedrops four weeks after first opening
- If you are using more than one kind of eyedrop in the same eye,
wait five minutes between drops.
- If you are using both drops & ointment in the same eye,
always use the drops first and wait five minutes before applying the
ointment.
- If you wear contact lenses, you should stop wearing them for the duration of your treatment unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
- Wash hands.
- Tilt head back and look at ceiling.
- Gently pull the lower eyelid down until it forms a small pocket, or pouch.
- Hold the tube parallel to the eye to avoid injury. Squeeze a line of approximately ½ cm (¼ inch) of ointment into the pouch without touching the eye, lid or lashes.
- Release the lower lid and allow to blink. Wipe away the excess ointment with a tissue.
