【Japan must buy】How to choose eye drops?

There are many kinds of eye drops in Japan. It can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming, and the horses are galloping. There are hundreds of eye drops, how should we choose them?

The common effects of Japanese OTC (over-the-counter) eye drops are as follows, each containing the required ingredients

• Eyestrain: Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Amino Acids, Taurine
• Redness, inflammation: zinc sulfate, glycyrrhizic acid, chlorpheniramine, vasoconstrictors (tetrahydrozoline, naphapyrazoline)
• Dryness: Chondroitin Sulfate, Amino Acids, Sodium Chloride, Calcium Chloride, HPMC
• Itchy eyes: antihistamines, chlorpheniramine

Efficacy and dosage?

Most of the time, you can choose eye drops from the above major categories according to your needs, but if your symptoms are particularly severe, it is recommended to see a doctor for prescription drugs. This is also the difference between prescription eye drops and general market eye drops. Prescription eye drops are more targeted and effective, such as for glaucoma or cataract. The efficacy of commercially available eye drops is relatively weak, but the functions are relatively comprehensive.

If you want more potent eye drops, some commercially available eye drops will add the maximum dose allowed by over-the-counter drugs, and these types of eye drops are usually more effective.

Eye drops also have preservatives! ?

We don't like to buy products with added preservatives when we buy most of the products. I still remember when my mother said that eating too much instant noodles would turn me into a mummy. There is also a feeling of doing something bad. I didn't expect that when I grew up, I also encountered the problem of preservatives when buying eye drops. Could it be that my eyes will turn into blood round eyes if I put too much eye drops on, and can I continue to use them for different people? In fact, the preservatives in eye drops are mainly used to prevent the growth of bacteria inside. If there is no preservative, then the eye drops that grow bacteria will cause eye infections. This effect is far greater than that of preservatives, and the current dosage of preservatives is also There are controls to reduce its impact on the human body, so there is no need to worry about whether there are preservatives in eye drops.

Friends who are really worried about preservatives can also refer to this eye drop from LION. Using LION's exclusive technology, it can achieve the same antiseptic effect without adding preservatives ( benzalkonium chloride ).

(With or without preservatives, it is recommended to use up eye drops within one or two months after opening, to avoid excessive time and breeding bacteria.)

For contact lenses

Among the various eye drops, some are designed for use by contact lens wearers. Generally speaking, there are not many problems with hard contact lenses, but special attention should be paid to soft contact lenses. Some naked eye drops will deform the soft contact lenses. Therefore, when using soft contact lenses, you must choose the eye drops available for soft contact lenses. If you have no choice but to drop general eye drops, please take off the soft contact lenses first, and then drop the eye drops.

In addition, if you are wearing color contact lenses, you should pay more attention when choosing eye drops. Many eye drops are not recommended for color contact lenses. Removal of colored contact lenses.

Rohto's Xiaohua Eye Drops has launched an eye drop that can also be used with colored contact lenses, and is recommended for those who use colored contact lenses.

Anti-blue light eye drops

As modern people use mobile phones more and more often, more and more people stare at the computer for seven or eight hours at work, because the eye damage caused by the screen also increases, and glaucoma and cataract are no longer diseases of the elderly. , There are many people in their 30s and 40s who have vision problems, and eye drops for long-term computer use have also begun to appear on the market.

This type of eye drops mainly improves the repair speed of the eyes when looking at the computer for a long time by adding ingredients such as vitamins B2 and B6 that increase cell activity and accelerate cell repair. In addition, some eye drops also add ingredients that relax the eye muscles to relax long-term Eye muscles staring at the screen at close range.

Yebisu Japanese medicine direct delivery includes a variety of eye drops on the market and is divided into categories. You can quickly find the eye drops that suit you according to different needs. If there is no product you need on the shelf, welcome to discuss with us, we can find a way to put it on the shelf.