Looking for a way to make your eyes more comfortable when they feel dry? Try Viscotears Liquid Gel! This product contains the active ingredient, carbomer (polyacrylic acid), which helps to lubricate and protect your eyes. So if you’re looking for an easy and convenient way to relieve dry eye symptoms, give Viscotears Liquid Gel a try.
Viscotears Gel is used to make your eyes more comfortable when they feel dry. It is one of a group of eye drops called ‘artificial tears’.
You can get dry eyes if you do not make enough tears or your tears dry up quickly.
You may be more likely to get dry eyes if:
You may have dry eyes if your eyes are:
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The price of Viscotears Liquid Gel is £3.90
You can buy Viscotears Liquid Gel at Dock Pharmacy Essex UK, UK Online Pharmacy.
Viscotears Liquid Gel is available to buy over the counter.
If your doctor has prescribed Viscotears he/she will tell you how and when to use it and the dose will be on the pharmacist’s label.
The usual dosage is:
Adults (including the elderly): One drop in each affected eye, three or four times a day.
Children and adolescents aged to 18 years:
The safety and efficacy of Viscotears in children and adolescents at the posology recommended in adults has been established by clinical experience, but no clinical trial data are available.
If you are not sure ask your doctor or pharmacist.
How to use your eye drops
1. Wash your hands.
2. If you wear contact lenses, remove them before using the drops and do not replace for at least 15 minutes.
3. Hold the tube vertically (see figure 1).
4. Tilt your head backwards (see figure 2).
5. Rest one hand on your cheek and gently pull down your lower eye lid.
6. Look upwards.
7. Insert one drop by squeezing the tube gently (see figure 3).
8. Blink a few times to spread the liquid gel evenly over your eye.
9. Wipe away any excess gel from around the eyelids.
10. Repeat for your other eye if required.
NOTE: Do not touch your eye or the surrounding area with the tip of the dropper as this may cause injury to the eye and contaminate the gel.
If you use more Viscotears than you should, it is not expected that you will suffer any side effects from this, however, should you notice any problems you think are related, seek medical attention. Follow the instructions carefully. If there is anything you don’t understand, ask your pharmacist or doctor.
Do not use Viscotears Liquid Gel later than four weeks after first opening.
Things to consider before you start to use Viscotears
DO NOT use Viscotears if:
Take special care:
In children and adolescents aged to 18 years, the safety and efficacy of Viscotears at the posology recommended in adults has been established by clinical experience, but no clinical trial data are available.
Warnings and precautions
Other medicines and Viscotears
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are using, have recently used or might use any other medicines.
If you are using other eye drop or eye ointment medicines, wait at least 5 minutes between each medicine. Viscotears should always be the last eye drops used.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.
Viscotears contains cetrimide
A preservative in Viscotears (cetrimide) may cause eye irritation and is also known to discolour soft contact lenses.
If you wear contact lenses, you should remove them before using Viscotears and wait at least 15 minutes before putting your lenses back in.
Driving and using machines
Some people may find that their visi
Possible side effects
Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
You may experience the following reactions in your eyes:
Very common side effects (may affect more than 1 in 10 people): blurred vision
Common side effects (may affect up to 1 in 10 people): eye discomfort, eyelid crusting, eye irritation.
Uncommon side effects (may affect up to 1 in 100 people): eye swelling, eye pain, itchy eye, eye redness, increased tear production.
Or, reactions in other parts of your body:
Uncommon side effects (may affect up to 1 in 100 people): skin inflammation.
Additional side effects from post-marketing experience that have been reported for which the frequency is not known: Allergic reactions (symptoms may include itching, redness, swelling, or pain of the eye or redness, swelling or rash of the skin around the eye).
Reporting of side effects
If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in this leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the national reporting system (see details below). By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.
Viscotears contains 2.0 mg/g of the active ingredient, carbomer (polyacrylic acid). The liquid gel also contains the inactive ingredients cetrimide (as a preservative), sorbitol, sodium hydroxide and water. Each tube contains 10 g of Viscotears.
Keep all medicines out of the reach and sight of children.
Do not store the drops above 25°C.
Do not use the drops for longer than 28-days after first opening the tube.
Do not use the eye drops after the expiry date shown on the tube (EXP).
Take any unused Viscotears back to your pharmacist to be destroyed. Do not throw it away with your normal household water or waste.
This will help to protect the environment.
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1 review for Viscotears Liquid Gel For Dry Eyes, 10g
Morag (verified owner) –
Exactly as ordered and good delivery
Julie Cutbush –
Dear Morag, we are glad to hear.