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Timolol side effects and inadvertent overdosing
L P Hayes1, C J Stewart, I Kim
1Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|March 1, 1989
Abstract:
The case reports demonstrate that significant and potentially dangerous side effects from timolol maleate occur as a result of inadvertent overdosing. Because many glaucoma patients are elderly and vision is frequently impaired, overdosing may be the mechanism of side effects in many patients especially the elderly. A simple dropper that would withdraw only one drop and deliver the same would resolve this problem.