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ingredients.
What is in this leaflet This medicine is only available
If you have any concerns about with a doctor’s prescription
using this medicine, ask your
Read this leaflet carefully There is no evidence that
doctor or pharmacist.
before you start to use Maxitrol Eye Drops are
Maxitrol Eye Drops. Keep this leaflet with your
addictive.
medicine.
This leaflet answers some
common questions about You may need to read it again. Use in children
Maxitrol Eye Drops. It does not
contain all the available
What Maxitrol Eye Maxitrol Eye Drops are not
information. It does not take the Drops is used for recommended for use in children
place of talking to your doctor or as the safety and effectiveness in
pharmacist. Maxitrol Eye Drops is a sterile children has not been
eye drop that contains the active established.
The information in this leaflet ingredients dexamethasone,
was last updated on the date neomycin and polymyxin B. Before you use Maxitrol
listed on the final page. More Both neomycin and polymyxin B Eye Drops
recent information on the are antibiotic agents.
medicine may be available. Dexamethasone is a type of When you must not use it
You should ensure that you cortisone and belongs to the
speak to your pharmacist or group of medicines called Do not use Maxitrol Eye Drops
doctor to obtain the most up to corticosteroids. if you have an allergy to:
date information on the
medicine. Maxitrol Eye Drops are used to • neomycin or other
treat inflammation and bacterial aminoglycoside antibiotics
You can also download the most
up to date leaflet from
infections in the external part of • polymyxin B or other
the eye. polymyxin antibiotics
www.medsafe.govt.nz.
The updates may contain Before prescribing Maxitrol Eye • dexamethasone or any other
important information about the Drops, your doctor will have corticosteroid medicine
medicine and its use of which examined your eye(s) and • any of the ingredients in
you should be aware. decided that Maxitrol Eye Drops Maxitrol Eye Drops listed
is the right medicine for you. under Product Description at
All medicines have risks and
benefits. Your doctor has the end of this leaflet
Ask your doctor if you have
weighed the risks of you using any questions about why this • other similar medicines.
Maxitrol against the expected medicine has been prescribed
benefits it will have for you. for you. Some of the symptoms of an
allergic reaction may include:
The information in this leaflet
applies to Maxitrol Eye Drops Your doctor may have prescribed • shortness of breath
only. This information does not Maxitrol Eye Drops for another
apply to similar products, even if reason. • wheezing or difficulty
they contain the same breathing
Date of preparation
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