Thursday, October 7, 2010
The Cress Dropper™ attaches to most medication bottles. The arched area of the dropper rests on the bridge of the nose with dropper tip touching the inside corner of the eye. By gently squeezing the bottle, the Cress Dropper™ administers an accurate dose of medication every time.
The Cress Dropper - Eye Drops Made Easy
Dr. Jon Cress: Hello, I'm Jon Cress.
I've practiced ophthalmology for 33 years, and during that time one of the problems I've had is compliance with drop therapy. Patients who have glaucoma, patients who have infections, patients who have Allergy Treatments, all need drops, and some of them don't get very effective treatment with their drops because they don't get them in their eyes. So, toward that end, I developed an eye drop delivery system that allows people to get drops in their eyes comfortably, economically and without any threat.
Now, let me demonstrate this dropper for you. First of all, it has several features. It has a reference to the nose so that the patient can steady the dropper on their nose, and then put the dropper tip right into the nasal inner corner of the eye.
This dropper, you'll notice, has a hood, a ramp and a delivery tip. The hood protects the aperture from contamination. The drop comes out of the aperture--comes through the tube, out the aperture, over the ramp, and onto the delivery tip, and then is delivered into the eye. There's no contiguous fluid between the delivery tip and the aperture so that when air is drawn back into the bottle, there is no contamination.
Let me demonstrate how easy it is to use this dropper. You can do it even with glasses on. You simply put the tip into the corner of the eye, put your head back, squeeze 'til you feel the drop, and, voila, you have a drop in your eye, not down your face.
Unidentified Man: But, then I was diagnosed with a case of glaucoma, and my ophthalmologist gave me four medications that required me to put drops in my eyes four times a day, which became quite a challenge. I couldn't do it myself. My wife had to help me. When I tried to do it, the--most of the drops ran down my face, I lost a lot of the medication, and I ran out of my medication.
This is the little device that he gave me, and it's very simple to use. He just told me to put the little cradle over my nose, look up, put the little dropper into my eye, squeeze it, the drop goes in my eye, you pull it away; very simple.
Unidentified Woman: I've had eyelid surgery following cancer near my eye, and I have dry eyes. And it's been difficult because I can't pull the lid down, and I'm so happy to have this dropper that makes it easy to care for my eye.
Dr. Jon Cress: So, what we have is a drop delivery system that is effective, comfortable, nonthreatening, and delivers a drop to the inside corner of the eye every time.
Patients who use this dropper are thrilled that they're actually getting the drops in their eyes and not wasting them, and the doctors who are recommending and prescribing them are thrilled that the drug therapy that they're prescribing is working. And toward that end, everybody's happier. Thank you.