Cycloplegic drugs

Cycloplegic drugs prevent accommodation and focus on near objects by paralysing the ciliary muscle. All cycloplegic agents are anti-muscarinic drugs and

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Management. Cycloplegic drugs are generally muscarinic receptor antagonists such as atropine, cyclopentolate, homatropine, scopolamine and tropicamide.

When cycloplegic drugs are used as a mydriatic to dilate the pupil, the pupil in the normal eye regains its function when the drugs are metabolized or carried away. Some cycloplegic drugs can cause dilation of the pupil for several days.

Drugs that cause both pupillary dilatations, as well as cycloplegia (ciliary muscle paralysis), are called as Cycloplegics.

by CA OLIVER 2024The drugs spoken of as mydriatics are ophthalmologically divisible into four classesanalgesics, mydriatics, iridoplegics and cycloplegics.

Thus refraction can be broadly divided into cycloplegic and non-cycloplegic refraction. Cycloplegic drugs are often used to evaluate patients for underlying refractive errors. Cycloplegics cause temporary paralysis of ciliary muscles allowing the determination of total refractive errors. Cycloplegic retinoscopy is also known as wet retinoscopy.

This article looks at the cycloplegic effects of mydriatic diagnostic agents, neurotransmitter controls, the cycloplegic agents available to optometrists.

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