• Ocular inflammation with superficial bacterial infection or risk:
    • Adults and >2 years: 1-2 gtt to affected eye(s) every 4-6 hours
      • May increase frequency to every 2 hours during the first 24-48 hours, then taper to less frequent intervals

Eye drops: 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v

  • Remove contact lenses before applying the eye drops and wait until 10 min before inserting contact lenses.
  • Discard 4 weeks after opening bottle
  • Eye drops should be used before eye ointments
  • If using more than 1 eye drop, they should be administered at least 5 minutes apart

Dexamethasone: Corticosteroid. It prevents/reduces irritation and swelling by suppressing normal immune response, decreasing inflammatory mediators and reverses capillary permeability

Tobramycin: Aminoglycoside. It appears to inhibit protein synthesis in susceptible bacteria by irreversibly binding to 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits

  • Ocular pain
  • Conjunctival hyperemia
  • Eyelid pruritus
  • Eyelid edema
  • Hypersensitivity to class/components
  • Intraocular injection use
  • Ocular mycobacterial infection
  • Ocular fungal infection
  • Ocular viral infection
  • Ocular vaccinia infection
  • Ocular varicella infection
  • Epithelial herpes simplex keratitis
  • Abrupt withdrawal in long-term use

None restricted

                          Drug Status

Availability Prescription or OTC by Pharmacist
Pregnancy May be used
Breastfeeding May be used
Schedule Not controlled
BRAND NAME STRENGTH FORMULATION PACK SIZE MANUFACTURER DISTRIBUTOR
Ocutob-D 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Drops 5mL Centaur Pharma Sai Pharma
Optidex-T 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Drops 5mL Jamjoon Pharma Specialities
Orbidex T 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Drops 5mL Popular Pharma Madawa Pharma
Tobdex 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Drops 5mL Aurolab Aurolab
Tobradex 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Drops 5mL Novartis Pharma Pan Pharma
Tobradex 0.1% w/v + 0.3% w/v Eye Ointment 3.5g Novartis Pharma Pan Pharma