Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Use of Topical Euphrasia, a Homeopathic Remedy in Ophthalmology
Brief Summary:
The investigators plan to use an herbal eye drop, Euphrasia, aka Eyebright, for post-operative inflammation for Peripheral Laser Iridotomy for the treatment of narrow angle glaucoma. A peripheral Laser Iridotomy is a simple laser procedure with few complications if the patient follows the post-operative instructions. In this procedure, a blue-green Argon laser is used to create an orifice in the iris to open the angle by allowing the aqueous from behind the iris to enter the anterior chamber. Rarely the procedure needs to be repeated. The main complications from this surgery are postoperative inflammation, bleeding, and postoperative pressure spikes.
The investigators will be using Weleda's Euphrasia D3 eye drops. The investigators plan to do a double blinded randomized control trial to objectively measure ocular inflammation in the same process that was used for the steroid eye drops that are currently out on the market. Some patients will be receiving steroids, prednisolone acetate, others, the herbal eye drop.