OCULAR PHARMACOLOGY- concerned with study and the use of the drugs for the primary eye care

What is ocular pharmacology?

Ocular pharmacology is the specialty field in medicine, which is concerned with study and the use of the drugs for the primary eye care. This field of medicine mostly centers around the biological effects of the medicine on the eye. Antagonistic drugs are those drugs, which work only at the level of the receptors. Activating or inhibiting drugs are those drugs, which work at the level of the enzymes. 

THE SUB FILED - PHARMACOKINETICS:

Pharmacokinetics is a subfield under ocular pharmacology, which is concerned with the absorption of the drugs by the body, the distribution of the drugs in the body and the metabolism that takes place after the working of the drugs and also with the excretion of the drugs. A drug can be applied and distributed to the ocular tissue of the eyes in two ways which are “local” and “systemic”

The penetration of the drug depends upon the concentration of the drug. If the concentration of the drug is less, the penetrating effect of the drug will also be less. Therefore, higher the concentration of the drug, higher will be the penetrating effect of the drug. The addition of certain necessary chemicals to the drug increases the penetrating effect of the drug by increasing the time of contact with the cornea of the eyes. If the solubility of the lipid of the drug is high, the penetrating effect of the drug on the ocular tissue of the eyes will also be high. By- Pujha Ramesh