Medication Facts
- Performance enhancing
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- Total hours to clear
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- Frequently used
- Not recorded
- ESC ID
- MYOPIA-0601
- Trade names
- Not recorded
- Drug type
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- Plasma half-life · hours
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- Equine dosing
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- Cmax · peak plasma concentration
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- Tmax · time to peak plasma concentration
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- ESC concentration guidance
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- Primary withdrawal · hours
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- Washout withdrawal · hours
- Not recorded
- ESC control type
- N/A
- Medication report required
- N/A
Uses & side effects
Myopia
Product-specific side effects await source review.
Drug interactions
There are no veterinary medications specifically indicated to treat or reverse myopia (nearsightedness) in horses. Because horses cannot tell us their distance vision is blurry and cannot wear corrective lenses, true refractive myopia is rarely diagnosed as an isolated condition, and it does not receive direct drug therapy.Instead, when a horse presents with myopia, it is treated by managing the primary underlying ocular diseases or physical lens changes that caused the refractive error in the first place:Managing Equine Recurrent Uveitis (ERU): Chronic intraocular inflammation can alter the shape of the lens or cause the iris to adhere to the lens (posterior synechiae), changing how light bends. This is managed with topical corticosteroids like NeoPolyDex (NPD) to stop inflammatory damage, combined with Atropine Sulfate drops to dilate the pupil, relieve ciliary spasms, and physically break or prevent those blinding lens adhesions.Addressing Secondary Glaucoma: High intraocular pressure can stretch the cornea or the entire globe, inducing structural myopia. This is managed using topical pressure-lowering drops such as Dorzolamide or Timolol to preserve retinal health and control eye shape.Cataract and Lens Surgery: If a severe cataract or physical displacement of the lens alters the horse's focal distance, an equine veterinary ophthalmologist can surgically remove the clouded lens and, in specialized cases, implant a permanent, synthetic corrective intraocular lens (IOL) to manually fix the horse's refractive distance tracking.