How to fix Lasik glare

Glare is a side effect that occurs after the Lasik eye surgery. In it people see a sharp reflection; the reflection is similar to the effect of sunlight reflecting off the windscreen of a car and the distraction created by that and it is the general inability to see properly in bright light.

This problem is very common for most of the patients to see glares and halos around things during the night for a few weeks or months in the post-operative stage, but as time passes this problem gets better. The problem of glare sometimes can occur due to under correction during the surgery. Till now the only treatment for this glaring problem are a few eye drops that are used for these cases. One of the eye drops is pilocarpine. This is used mainly to control the size of the cornea in order to relieve the patient from the problem of glare. But the problem with this very drug is that it gives headache, face and eye pain to the user. It can also cause more near sightedness and even detachment of the retina. In order to get rid of the side effects of using pilocarpine another drug named Alphagan which is brimonidine tartrate is used. This eye drop regulates the size of the pupil but does not give the side effects. This new drug is normally to be taken once in every twelve hours but mostly the patient needs it just once a day.

 

The patient should not form any idea about the reason of the glare without consulting the doctor. If the glare is the result of under correction during the surgery then it can be corrected with further surgery or the use of specs.