Description
UPNEEQ is indicated for the treatment of acquired blepharoptosis in adults.
Do not let the tip of the UPNEEQ single patient-use container touch your eye or any other surfaces to avoid contamination or injury to your eye.Use 1 drop of UPNEEQ in the affected eye 1 time each day. Each single patient-use container of UPNEEQ will give you enough medicine to treat both eyes 1 time each day if needed. There is some extra UPNEEQ in each single patient-use container in case you miss getting the drop into your eye.
UPNEEQ (oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution), 0.1% contains oxymetazoline hydrochloride, an alpha adrenoceptor agonist. UPNEEQ is an aseptically prepared, sterile, non-preserved ophthalmic solution. The chemical name is 6-tert-Butyl-3-(2-imidazolin-2-ylmethyl)-2,4dimethylphenol monohydrochloride, and the molecular mass is 296.84. Oxymetazoline HCl is freely soluble in water and ethanol and has a partition coefficient of 0.1 in 1-octanol/water. The molecular formula of oxymetazoline HCl is C16H24N2O∙HCl, and its structural formula is: Each mL of UPNEEQ (oxymetazoline hydrochloride ophthalmic solution) 0.1% contains 1 mg of oxymetazoline hydrochloride, equivalent to 0.09 mg (0.09%) of oxymetazoline free base. The ophthalmic solution contains the following inactive ingredients: calcium chloride, hydrochloric acid (used to adjust pH to 5.8 to 6.8), hypromellose, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium acetate, sodium chloride, sodium citrate, and water for injection
