What medicine does optic neuritis take

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Eye health, is currently people in peacetime will pay special attention to things, and optic neuritis, is a common disease in the eye area, therefore, the next article on the treatment of optic neuritis commonly used drugs are introduced.

What medicine does optic neuritis take

Drug 1: acute patients, due to the optic nerve fiber inflammation and swelling, if the time is too long or the inflammatory reaction is too severe, can make the optic nerve fiber degeneration and necrosis, so, for patients with acute optic neuritis, it is best to control the inflammation in the early stage, to prevent the optic nerve fiber involvement, can oral prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone.

Drug 2: severe cases can be intravenous drip of adrenocorticotropic hormone. For a long time, there has been a debate on the treatment of optic neuritis in foreign ophthalmology circles. Some people advocate that optic neuritis should be given adrenocortical hormone. However, according to the statistics of a large number of cases and long-term follow-up, more people believe that the long-term curative effect of optic neuritis is the same regardless of whether it is given adrenocortical hormone or not The recurrence rate was higher in patients who were treated with corticosteroids than in patients who were not treated with corticosteroids.

Drug 3: vasodilator, retrobulbar injection of tolazoline or oral administration of tolazoline, nicotinic acid, etc.

matters needing attention

After suffering from optic neuritis, patients in the treatment of drug choice, it is necessary to combine the disease decision, and the Internet and improper use of the eye, will cause the disease, therefore, in peacetime to pay attention to avoid doing the above things for a long time.