tropicamide การใช้

• I guess tropicamide or phenylephrine or a combination of both.
• Like other anticholinergics, when taken recreationally, tropicamide acts as a deliriant.
• Dilation can be caused by mydriatic substances such as an eye drop solution containing tropicamide.
• Tropicamide and phenylephrine are used in medicine as mydriatics to dilate pupils for retinal and lens examination.
• Tropicamide induces transient stinging and a slight and transient rise in intraocular pressure in the majority of patients.
• In Russia, Tropicamide, a mydriatic eye drop, is used to some degree as an inexpensive recreational drug.
• Tropicamide is occasionally administered in combination with p-hydroxyamphetamine ( brand name Paremyd ), which is a sympathomimetic.
• Important muscarinic antagonists include atropine, Hyoscyamine, hyoscine butylbromide and hydrobromide, ipratropium, tropicamide, cyclopentolate, and pirenzepine.
• To allow for better inspection through the pupil, which dilate the pupil by application of a mydriatic agent, for instance tropicamide.
• Tropicamide is often preferred to atropine because atropine has a longer half-life, causing prolonged dilation and blurry vision for up to a week.
• In the United States, the sympathomimetic drop most commonly used along with tropicamide, is 2.5 % phenylephrine hydrochloride ( brand name AK-Dilate ).
• According to the researchers of the European Commission-funded ReDNet Project, in Russia tropicamide is currently abused ( injected intravenously ) as an inexpensive recreational deliriant drug.
• Researchers are reporting in the June issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings that when they repeated the test, measuring changes in the eye's pupil after putting in tropicamide eye drops, they were unable to distinguish Alzheimer's patients from normal volunteers.