Atropine eye drops

Earl Needham (kd5xb@amsat.org)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:51:33 -0700

At 05:57 PM 12/21/98 -0500, Bruno Tilgner wrote:
>Rob Matson asked:
>
>
>< (On a side note, I wonder if belladonna (atropine) increases
>> adult dilated pupil size back to childhood levels?
>
>Yes it does for a couple of hours, although atropine is not used any more
>by opthalmologists because of undesirable side effects.

	Hmm.  I just had an eye exam last week, and guess what eye drops were
used?  Atropine.

	Well -- US military medicine has a lot of jokes about it...

	Earl


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