Your Good Health: Over-the-counter eye drops safe with AMD meds

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy 67-year-old woman being treated with Eylea for wet age-related macular degeneration . I have just had my second round of Eyelea, and with the pollen starting up, my eyes are beginning to itch. Is it safe to use over-the-counter eye drops? I also take Zyrtec for my interstitial cystitis.Eylea is used to treat several cancers as well as the “wet” form of AMD.

I did look up interactions between Eylea, Zyrtec, and several over-the-counter eye drops, and I couldn’t find any evidence of harmful interactions. Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old man who had a sudden severe onset of ulcerative colitis at age 66, which was confirmed by a colonoscopy. Colonoscopies done afterward showed only minimal inflammatory changes, and I was put on mesalamine. But my symptoms remained severe with unpredictable onsets until I was put on intravenous Entyvio every two months instead.

It has much less of an effect on other infections than treatments that are designed to suppress the immune system, as it only works in the gut. It’s not really an immunosuppressant. It has few serious side-effects.

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