Brimonidine Tartrate

Indication : Why is this medication prescribed?

Open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Contraindication: What are the special precautions to be followed?

Under following conditions, use of this medication is inadvisable. Its use should be withhold as it would cause harm to the patient
Hypersensitivity. MAO inhibitor therapy. Pregnancy.

Other Precaution to be observed while taking this medication

Severe cardiovascular disease. Hepatic and renal impairment. Depression. Cerebral and coronary insufficiency. Raynauds phenomenon. Orthostatic hypotension. Thromboangitis obliterans and lactation.

What are possible side effects of this medication ?

Oral dryness, ocular hyperemia, burning and stinging feeling in the eye, headache, blurring of vision, foreign bodies sensation, fatigue/drowsiness, conjunctival follicles, ocular allergic reactions and ocular pruritis.

Drug Category/Class

Brimonidine Tartrate has 10 Brands listed


Alphagan (Eye) (5 ml)Alphagan P (Eye) (5 ml)
Brimodin (Eye) (5 ml)Brimolol (Eye) (5 ml)
Brimonist (Eye) (5 ml)Brimosun (Eye) (5 ml)
Cibrim ZCombigan (Eye) (5 ml)
Iobrim (Eye) (5 ml)Rimonid (Eye) (5 ml)

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